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Latest Fact-Checks On Andrew Cuomo

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Andrew Cuomo
Andrew Cuomo
stated on January 14, 2021 in a tweet:
“No state gets back less from Washington than New York state.”
Mostly True
By Cassidey Kavathas, Hannah Roesch • February 11, 2021
Andrew Cuomo
Andrew Cuomo
stated on January 29, 2021 in a news conference:
“But we’re below the national average in number of deaths in nursing homes.”
Mostly True
By Jill Terreri Ramos • February 9, 2021
Andrew Cuomo
Andrew Cuomo
stated on September 30, 2020 in a press call:
"We're No. 46 out of 50 states... we're 46th in terms of percentage of deaths in nursing homes."
Mostly False
By Jill Terreri Ramos • October 16, 2020
Andrew Cuomo
Andrew Cuomo
stated on May 20, 2020 in a news conference:
“Why did the state do that with COVID patients in nursing homes? It’s because the state followed President Trump’s CDC guidance.”
Mostly False
By Jill Terreri Ramos • June 13, 2020
Andrew Cuomo
Andrew Cuomo
stated on April 23, 2020 in a news conference:
“At the end of the year, we put into that federal pot $116 billion more than we take out,” while Kentucky “takes out $148 billion more than they put in.”
Half-True
By Jill Terreri Ramos • May 5, 2020
Andrew Cuomo
Andrew Cuomo
stated on April 11, 2020 in a briefing:
Says that under the law, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio “can’t open” the city’s schools.
Half-True
By Rachel Kimmel, John Pullano • April 30, 2020
Andrew Cuomo
Andrew Cuomo
stated on April 12, 2020 in a tweet:
“Some states, like Montana and Nebraska, are getting more than $300,000 in federal stimulus money per reported COVID-19 case. New York is the hardest-hit state and yet we are getting only about $12,000 per case.”
Mostly True
By Meghan Hall, Hannah Roesch • April 29, 2020
Andrew Cuomo
Andrew Cuomo
stated on April 14, 2020 in a news conference:
“Go look at other countries that went through exactly this, started to reopen, and then they saw the infection rate go back up again.”
True
By Jill Terreri Ramos • April 20, 2020
Andrew Cuomo
Andrew Cuomo
stated on March 17, 2020 in a news conference:
“No city in the state can quarantine itself without state approval.”
True
By Jill Terreri Ramos • March 20, 2020
Andrew Cuomo
Andrew Cuomo
stated on January 8, 2020 in a speech:
"We have the lowest corporate tax rate since 1968."
True
By Jill Terreri Ramos • January 18, 2020
Andrew Cuomo
Andrew Cuomo
stated on July 19, 2019 in a radio interview:
Property taxes have "nothing to do with the state."
Half-True
By Jill Terreri Ramos • August 10, 2019
Andrew Cuomo
Andrew Cuomo
stated on March 11, 2019 in a news conference:
"Fifty-two counties have average taxes of above the SALT $10,000 cap."
Mostly False
By Jill Terreri Ramos • April 17, 2019
Andrew Cuomo
Andrew Cuomo
stated on March 12, 2019 in a speech:
There’s been a "20 percent increase in young people coming back to Buffalo after a decade where we lost 10 percent of our young people."  
Half-True
By Jill Terreri Ramos • March 23, 2019
Andrew Cuomo
Andrew Cuomo
stated on December 17, 2018 in a speech:
New York has passed "the best paid family leave" program in the United States of America.
True
By Jill Terreri Ramos • January 7, 2019
Andrew Cuomo
Andrew Cuomo
stated on November 19, 2018 in a radio interview:
"There is nothing that we have done on Amazon that we have not done with hundreds of other projects."
True
By Jill Terreri Ramos • December 7, 2018
Andrew Cuomo
Andrew Cuomo
stated on October 16, 2018 in a campaign advertisement:
"He even supports putting a female inmate in shackles during childbirth."
True
By Jill Terreri Ramos • October 19, 2018
Andrew Cuomo
Andrew Cuomo
stated on September 14, 2018 in a news conference in New York City:
"I think I received more votes in the Democratic primary than any governor in history."
True
By Jill Terreri Ramos • September 20, 2018
Andrew Cuomo
Andrew Cuomo
stated on August 29, 2018 in a debate between Democratic candidates for governor, at Hofstra University.:
"We passed the toughest gun control law in the United States of America, the SAFE Act."
Mostly False
By Jill Terreri Ramos • September 6, 2018
Andrew Cuomo
Andrew Cuomo
stated on April 11, 2018 in a conversation with reporters:
"I think we're actually ahead" on legalizing marijuana for recreational use in New York state.
False
By Dan Clark • April 17, 2018
Andrew Cuomo
Andrew Cuomo
stated on March 12, 2018 in a press conference:
"The only housing authority in the state that we have actually given money to is NYCHA."
False
By Dan Clark • March 23, 2018
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