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New York Governor Andrew Cuomo said Friday that Senator Mitch McConnell's suggestion that states could declare bankruptcy during the coronavirus pandemic "a really dumb idea." The Senate Majority Leader said Wednesday that he would rather let state governments declare bankruptcy than receive more federal funding.  McConnell also suggested Republicans should oppose additional aid for state…

April 23, 2020 | 3:06am | Updated April 23, 2020 | 3:20am Enlarge Image Long Island GOP Rep. Pete King (left) and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell Dennis A. Clark / AFP via Getty Images Long Island GOP Rep. Pete King on Wednesday ripped Mitch McConnell as the “Marie Antoinette of the Senate” after the…

The Senate majority leader is hitting the brakes. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is not letting the states off easy. Saul Loeb/Getty Images Slate is making its coronavirus coverage free for all readers. Subscribe to support our journalism. Start your free trial. The half-loaf agreement that Democratic and Republican negotiators reached on Tuesday to replenish the…

Get all the latest news on coronavirus and more delivered daily to your inbox. Sign up here. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., said Wednesday morning that the coronavirus "pandemic will not prevent" the Senate from continuing to confirm judicial nominees once senators return to Washington, D.C., early next month.The majority leader, in an appearance on the Hugh…

Republican lawmakers objected Wednesday to giving governors a “blank check” that could end up in chronically underfunded union pension plans, as Washington tees up another massive coronavirus stimulus package with an eye toward bailing out hard-hit state budgets. “We’ll certainly insist that anything we’d borrow to send down to the states is not spent on…