New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo is scheduled to join other leaders of his administration for a press briefing Wednesday afternoon. The briefing is scheduled to begin at 1 p.m. Click the video player above to view a livestream.In a press release, the governor’s office confirmed the briefing will include COVID-19 updates for the state. It will also mark the first time Cuomo has taken questions from the press since Feb. 22 and his first on-camera briefing with questions since Feb. 19. The relative silence from the state’s top office comes as some members of his own party call for his resignation following multiple allegations of unwanted sexual advances. Three women, including two former staffers, have come forward in recent weeks. Neither Cuomo nor his office have commented on the most recent allegation released in a New York Times report Monday night. In it, a woman said the governor touched her lower back before grabbing her cheeks and asking if he could kiss her at a 2019 wedding. The latest controversy with the administration comes on the heels of another — Cuomo is facing continued criticism for withholding, for months, complete data on the number of nursing home residents who died of COVID-19. State legislators announced Tuesday they would limit the governor’s powers to set policy during the coronavirus pandemic. This report will be updated.
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo is scheduled to join other leaders of his administration for a press briefing Wednesday afternoon.
The briefing is scheduled to begin at 1 p.m. Click the video player above to view a livestream.
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In a press release, the governor’s office confirmed the briefing will include COVID-19 updates for the state. It will also mark the first time Cuomo has taken questions from the press since Feb. 22 and his first on-camera briefing with questions since Feb. 19.
The relative silence from the state’s top office comes as some members of his own party call for his resignation following multiple allegations of unwanted sexual advances. Three women, including two former staffers, have come forward in recent weeks.
Neither Cuomo nor his office have commented on the most recent allegation released in a New York Times report Monday night. In it, a woman said the governor touched her lower back before grabbing her cheeks and asking if he could kiss her at a 2019 wedding.
The latest controversy with the administration comes on the heels of another — Cuomo is facing continued criticism for withholding, for months, complete data on the number of nursing home residents who died of COVID-19.
State legislators announced Tuesday they would limit the governor’s powers to set policy during the coronavirus pandemic.
This report will be updated.
