Cuomo blames Trump for nursing home death undercount

By David Hogberg

Published January 29, 2021 9:16pm ET

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Cuomo blames Trump for nursing home death undercount — Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who had been seeking a waiver of $10 billion since 2012, said in a statement that an "agreement in principle" had been reached. The agreement with Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius still has to be finalized. | (AP Photo/Mike Groll)

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo responded to accusations that his administration undercounted nursing home deaths from COVID-19 by laying the blame on the Trump administration.

“Where this starts, is, frankly, a political attack from the prior federal administration and HHS and their great spokesman Michael Caputo, who was a protégé of Roger Stone,” Cuomo said at a press conference Friday.

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