White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki
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On ABC’s “This Week,” Jonathan Karl played a tape from Biden last April that said Cuomo was “a kind of gold” while New York struggled with shooting cases. during the early months of the pandemic, and added that the governor “has done a hellish job.” The Cuomo office’s handling of coronavirus outbreaks in the state’s nursing homes is now the subject of a federal investigation by the FBI and the U.S. attorney in Brooklyn, which is investigating members unidentified from the Cuomo administration.
When asked if Biden still believes Cuomo represents the “gold standard,” Psaki insisted that Biden would continue to work with Cuomo, as he would with all governors.
“We work with Governor Cuomo in the same way we work with the governor across the country,” Psaki said, noting his position as president of the National Association of Governors. “It plays an important role in making sure we coordinate closely to get help from people in your state and states across the country and we will continue to do so.”
Psaki said investigations into nursing home deaths during the pandemic are up to police authorities to “determine how this path will be taken as we expect, but we will continue to work with several governors, including, of course, the governor. Cuomo because we believe that the people of New York, the people of the states across the country need help not only to get through the pandemic, but to get through this difficult economic time and this is where our focus remains. ”
When Karl again insisted on whether Biden still believed Cuomo was the gold standard in leadership during the pandemic, asking him to answer “just a yes or a no,” Psaki said, “It doesn’t always have to be a yes or a no, Jon “.
“I think the president is focused on his goal, his goals as president of the United States,” Psaki said. “I’m not here to give new labels or names of the president, I’m here to communicate with you what our focuses are and what your goals as president are.”
Cuomo has faced increasing criticism, including from other New York Democrats, who have also pushed the Democratic state Senate leadership to take steps to withdraw its emergency powers amid issues related to the death of nursing homes. He has refused to apologize and blamed critics for being in a “toxic political environment.”