Two of New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s top female aides are leaving the administration as the governor faces fallout over the coronavirus pandemic and sexual misconduct allegations from two former staffers and a third woman.
1. After nine hours of negotiations, Senate Democrats reached a compromise on enhanced unemployment benefits in President Biden's COVID-19 stimulus plan. Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.V.), a crucial moderate vote on the Democratic side, had expressed concern about raising the existing $300 per week benefit (which is set to expire on March 14) to $400 per week, but he came around on a new deal that kept the payments at $300 while extending them until.
Cuomo DENIES his aides altered nursing home death data: NY State lawmakers vote to STRIP the governor of his emergency powers on the same day three staffers quit amid sexual harassment storm
Insiders said Thursday Cuomo s aides revised the nursing home death data in a July report to massage the figures before they went public
Special Counsel Beth Garvey released a statement Friday hitting back at the bombshell report
Garvey insisted none of the state s COVID Taskforce members changed any of the fatality numbers or altered the fatality data
She claimed it had been public knowledge that deaths in hospitals were being counted separately to deaths inside the facilities