PUBLISHED 8:07 PM ET Mar. 02, 2021 PUBLISHED 8:07 PM EST Mar. 02, 2021
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State lawmakers in both houses have finally reached an agreement to repeal Governor Andrew Cuomo’s emergency powers granted to him at the height of the pandemic last year.
Coronavirus cases were mounting quickly across the state, hospitals were filling up, and decisions needed to be made immediately. But now, the state’s infection rate has crept back down, and the governor is facing a backlash for the controversy surrounding nursing home resident deaths, as well as sexual harassment allegations by three women in less than a week.
Although the legislature will be moving forward with limiting the governor’s emergency powers, lawmakers on both sides of the aisle say Cuomo still needs to resign.