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Andrew Cuomo

Andrew Cuomo

Andrew Cuomo, a Democrat, was elected to his first term as governor of New York in 2010.

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Latest Fact-Checks By 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.”
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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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Latest Fact-Checks About Andrew Cuomo

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Viral image
stated on August 10, 2021 in an Instagram post:
CNN had “Jeffrey Toobin on analyzing the Andrew Cuomo sexual harassment allegations as their legal expert.”
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By Ciara O'Rourke • August 10, 2021
Bill Cassidy
Bill Cassidy
stated on February 7, 2021 in remarks on NBC's "Meet the Press":
“New York, for all of their complaining, Gov. Cuomo's complaining, has only had a 1.5% decrease in revenue” due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Mostly False
By John Pullano • February 26, 2021
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on August 20, 2020 in a speech:
“Cuomo ended cash bail ... and now the crime rate has gone through the roof.”
False
By Jill Terreri Ramos • August 29, 2020
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on May 14, 2020 in a Facebook post:
If masks prevent coronavirus, governors would have given them to prison inmates instead of releasing them.
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By Tom Kertscher • May 19, 2020
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on March 29, 2020 in an image:
Says the governors of Michigan, New York and Nevada “have issued orders banning the prescription of hydroxychloroquine to patients with COVID-19.”
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By Daniel Funke • April 2, 2020
Marc Molinaro
Marc Molinaro
stated on October 23, 2018 in a debate between candidates for governor in New York City:
On spending growth under Gov. Andrew Cuomo: "Despite the fact that you continue to suggest that you’ve been able to hold the two percent, you haven’t."  
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By Jill Terreri Ramos • October 26, 2018
Marc Molinaro
Marc Molinaro
stated on September 14, 2018 in in a news conference:
Says Gov. Andrew Cuomo is "stealing money from the MTA and sending it upstate for projects that have nothing to do with transit."
False
By Jill Terreri Ramos • September 21, 2018
Christine Quinn
Christine Quinn
stated on May 23, 2018 in a presentation at the State Democratic Convention:
New York state has the "second highest millionaires tax in the nation."
Mostly False
By Dan Clark • May 31, 2018
Edward Cox
Edward Cox
stated on May 1, 2018 in an interview on The Capital Pressroom:
Marc Molinaro "has cut taxes, his budget now is lower than it was six years ago" in Dutchess County
Half-True
By Dan Clark • May 24, 2018
James Tedisco
James Tedisco
stated on April 13, 2018 in a blog post :
After the minimum wage for tipped workers was raised in Maine, the state "reversed that decision due to restaurant employees organizing en masse against the measure."
True
By Dan Clark • April 26, 2018
Kirsten Gillibrand
Kirsten Gillibrand
stated on April 20, 2018 in a tweet:
"Black and Latino people in NYC are arrested at TEN times the rate of white people for virtually the same rate of marijuana usage."
True
By Dan Clark • April 25, 2018
Marc Molinaro
Marc Molinaro
stated on April 2, 2018 in a conversation with reporters:
New York has "among the highest tax burdens of any state in the nation"
True
By Dan Clark • April 12, 2018
Brian Kolb
Brian Kolb
stated on March 31, 2018 in a statement on the state budget:
This year’s state budget "continues to direct millions in taxpayer dollars in advertising to the failing Start-Up NY program"
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By Dan Clark • April 9, 2018
Cynthia Nixon
Cynthia Nixon
stated on March 26, 2018 in a press conference:
Four years after Gov. Andrew Cuomo promised universal pre-K, "79 percent of 4-year olds outside New York City lack full-day pre-K."
Mostly True
By Dan Clark • March 30, 2018
Tom King
Tom King
stated on March 26, 2018 in a radio interview:
A bill in Congress "will ban all semi-automatic weapons, including pistols and shotguns. So, yes, they are coming to take away our guns."
Pants on Fire!
By Dan Clark • March 29, 2018
Cynthia Nixon
Cynthia Nixon
stated on March 20, 2018 in her announcement to run for governor:
"Since taking office, Andrew Cuomo has given massive tax breaks to corporations and the super rich."
Mostly False
By Dan Clark • March 23, 2018
Cynthia Nixon
Cynthia Nixon
stated on March 22, 2018 in a Buffalo News article:
"In one day of fundraising I received more small donor (contributions) than Andrew Cuomo received in seven years."
True
By Dan Clark • March 22, 2018
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on February 22, 2018 in a tweet:
"Under N.Y. State ‘Assault Weapon’ ban 1 simple cosmetic change pictured here is difference between legal & banned"
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By Dan Clark • February 28, 2018
Edward Cox
Edward Cox
stated on February 10, 2018 in opening remarks at a Republican gubernatorial debate:
About New York state: "We have the highest debt per capita."
True
By Dan Clark • February 16, 2018
Edward Cox
Edward Cox
stated on January 9, 2018 in a radio interview:
"Of all the 62 counties in New York state, all of them, unemployment is going up except for the five counties of New York City."
Mostly True
By Dan Clark • January 17, 2018
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