New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo is getting some company on the hot seat over the handling of nursing homes and COVID-19 patients.
Cuomo is among several Democratic governors who, in recent months, have mandated state nursing homes take in COVID-19 patients. Cuomo has been criticized by both Republicans and Democrats for it, but other state chief executives haven’t until now received similar scrutiny, including Govs. Gretchen Whitmer of Michigan, Phil Murphy of New Jersey, and Tom Wolf of Pennsylvania.
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The FBI and the U.S. attorney in the Eastern District of New York are investigating Cuomo and his administration after his top aide revealed two weeks ago that state officials allegedly hid the extent of coronavirus deaths in nursing homes when the administration was previously under investigation by the Justice Department for its handling of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Justice Department under the Trump administration first launched an inquiry back in August.
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Republican lawmakers in Washington have a lot of questions about the situation.
“I called for an investigation months and months and months ago,” Republican Pennsylvania Rep. Scott Perry told the Washington Examiner. “No one seemed to be interested in doing one. And so we don’t know what the limits of things are. But certainly, I think there are reasonable concerns when you put COVID positive individuals into the most vulnerable population, which was widely known at that time.”
New Jersey Republican Rep. Jeff Van Drew said the nursing home order made by Murphy was a “bad policy.”
“We were stuffing some of the most sensitive and weakest people, physically, with other people who were sick and weak physically,” Van Drew said. “How anybody could have ever thought that that was a good idea, in general, was just a bad policy.”
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Rep. Fred Upton, a Michigan Republican, wants to see a wider investigation take place in his state.
“I think that we need full transparency,” Upton said. “A number of us have asked questions. I’m not sure that we’ve got the answers, certainly why and what happened in New York, I think it has to be an examination in all of the states — all the states, including Michigan.”