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After White House Acts, Cuomo Modulates Tone

By RICHARD STEIER
Posted 3/27/20

Governor Cuomo's March 25 briefing on the state of his state in the time of COVID-19 had a distinctly different feel from the previous day's presentation, and for reasons that went beyond the change in venue from the Javits Convention Center in Manhattan to Albany.

A day earlier, his mode had been No More Mr. Nice Gov as he shifted from generally cordial remarks about President Trump during the previous week to accuse his administration of failing to be sufficiently responsive to New York's plight as the state hardest-hit by the coronavirus. He questioned how the Federal Emergency Management Agency could be sitting on a stockpile of 20,000 ventilators while committing just 400 to New York at a time when it needed 30,000.

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