‘We’ve sent them a lot of stuff.’ Trump says federal help to NY partly why Gov. Cuomo has high poll numbers – USA TODAY
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WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump said Monday that New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo is getting high approval ratings in part because of the help the federal government has given his state to fight the coronavirus outbreak.
“We’ve sent them a lot of stuff,” Trump said in a phone interview on Fox & Friends.
Amid the coronavirus crisis, the Republican president has sometimes sparred with Cuomo, a Democrat, but at other times has said they have a good working relationship.
“One of the reasons why he’s successful is because we’ve helped make him successful,” Trump said. “He’s gotten good marks, but I’ve gotten great marks.”
One flashpoint between Trump and Cuomo has been over ventilators that the governor has said are needed to prevent deaths in New York, the epicenter of the crisis in the U.S.
Cuomo has said New York was facing such a dire equipment shortage that care givers were converting some anesthesia machines into ventilators and adding second tubes to some ventilators in a process known as “splitting.”
Cuomo, one of several governors who has been pressing the federal government for help in obtaining ventilators, has said he needs 30,000 ventilators “at a minimum” to meet the peak of the outbreak.
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