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De Blasio: NYC needs billions in federal aid or city economy 'won't come back'
https://www.foxnews.com ^ | 5/17/2020 | By Ronn Blitzer | Fox News

Posted on 05/19/2020 4:00:06 PM PDT by RomanSoldier19

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio has claimed that his city requires $7.5 billion in federal aid to get back on track after being crippled by the coronavirus pandemic that has killed thousands of residents and shut down much of the city's economy.

President Trump and other Republican leaders have resisted handing out too much aid out of concern state and local leaders are hoping to be bailed out of economic trouble that began well before COVID-19 ravaged the nation. De Blasio insisted on Fox News' "Sunday Morning Futures" that this is not the case for his city, which needs the money to recoup losses needed to pay city workers.

NYC COUNCILMAN CALLS OUT CUOMO, DE BLASIO, ASKS FOR 'URGENCY' AND 'REASONABLE GUIDELINES' IN REOPENING

“That’s revenue that’s gone that pays for cops, firefighters, teachers, sanitation workers, it’s gone," de Blasio said. "And there’s no way I’m going to get it back.” De Blasio said he expects even greater losses, and that the city’s economy “won’t come back without a stimulus.”

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: New York
KEYWORDS: again; andrewcuomo; billdeblasio; newyork; newyorkcity
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To: RomanSoldier19


41 posted on 05/19/2020 4:28:28 PM PDT by Chode (Send bachelors and come heavily armed.)
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To: Da Coyote

New Yorkers elected him....

and he now has high approval like his fellow Dem Cuomo (!!)!

You NYC voters wanted a puppy and said you would take care of him, feed and bathe him. So do it.
Pay your own way, fools.


42 posted on 05/19/2020 4:32:03 PM PDT by frank ballenger (End vote fraud,harvesting,non-citizen voting & leftist media news censorship or we are finished.)
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To: RomanSoldier19

43 posted on 05/19/2020 4:32:20 PM PDT by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me https://youtu.be/wH-pk2vZG2M)
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To: Chode

Ditto!


44 posted on 05/19/2020 4:32:25 PM PDT by Jane Long (Praise God, from whom ALL blessings flow.)
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To: monkeyshine

Sounds like you have a plan that Willie the fake Frenchie will try to get passed by the NYC government.


45 posted on 05/19/2020 4:33:04 PM PDT by GreyFriar (Spearhead - 3rd Armored Division 75-78 & 83-87)
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To: RomanSoldier19

Just increase taxes on the rich. Jeez, do I have to think of everything?


46 posted on 05/19/2020 4:33:22 PM PDT by Veggie Todd (Voltaire: "Religion began when the first scoundrel met the first fool".)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

That’s why the new Pelosi pork bill includes $1 trillion in federal funds to bail out mismanaged Democrat cities and states.


47 posted on 05/19/2020 4:34:53 PM PDT by fluorescence
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To: RomanSoldier19

Promise? You won’t come back? Promise!!??


48 posted on 05/19/2020 4:37:36 PM PDT by goodnesswins (Anyone tired of the Chinese Fire Drill (tm) yet???)
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To: RomanSoldier19

All the people in New York City
I know you’re all going broke
But I know you’re tough, yeah, you’re hot stuff
Hot stuff


49 posted on 05/19/2020 4:41:21 PM PDT by plain talk
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To: RomanSoldier19

And historians wonder why massive cities in Central America lost their populations overnight.


50 posted on 05/19/2020 4:42:18 PM PDT by Yulee
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To: redshawk

Yep, eventually they rad out of other people’s money.


51 posted on 05/19/2020 4:42:22 PM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: GreyFriar

Next you know he’ll send a bill to the federal government for “leasing the Javitz Center” to make it into an emergency bed hospital.


52 posted on 05/19/2020 4:42:31 PM PDT by monkeyshine (live and let live is dead)
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To: RomanSoldier19

No one to blame but yourself, DeBlowsio.

53 posted on 05/19/2020 4:46:54 PM PDT by Sicon ("All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." - G. Orwell)
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To: RomanSoldier19
his city requires $7.5 billion in federal aid to get back on track after being crippled by the coronavirus pandemic that has killed thousands of residents and shut down much of the city's economy

You know, the whole country has suffered. Every city and state has suffered. The people have suffered enough of their buffoonery. These politicians need to be told to go stuff it. Force the hard decisions. If the people want to keep their idiotic tax and spend policies go for it but don't ask other suffering and sacrificing people to sacrifice more just for your own selfishness.

35 million people have lost their jobs; none of them work for the government of course. Now he wants to tax the unemployed to pay the salaries of the employed. What a jackal.

54 posted on 05/19/2020 4:47:15 PM PDT by monkeyshine (live and let live is dead)
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To: coaster123

Looks like some pension funds may be very disappointed. Maybe they should never have been promised in the first place. Guess some of the “hopefuls” need to be reminded that many in this country never were promised any kind of pension & we worked hard too.


55 posted on 05/19/2020 4:53:00 PM PDT by oldtech
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To: RomanSoldier19
I'm getting tired of the rest of the country bailing out New York City for its own stupidity.


56 posted on 05/19/2020 5:01:10 PM PDT by Cinnamontea
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

The city’s dead, Bill.


57 posted on 05/19/2020 5:02:01 PM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: RomanSoldier19



58 posted on 05/19/2020 5:04:31 PM PDT by Tawiskaro
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To: RomanSoldier19

Produce an Aircraft Carrier or piss off!


59 posted on 05/19/2020 5:07:24 PM PDT by The Toll
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To: RomanSoldier19

1. I love these leftist mayors who dogged the president now say they need the federal govt to help save them
2. Funny how he doesn’t ask the state of NY for the money


60 posted on 05/19/2020 5:10:45 PM PDT by stuck_in_new_orleans
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