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I'll be tweeting out the latest from Cuomo's press-free 2pm event bc you never know what he might say!

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Cuomo hanging with the troops at Javits

Gary LaBarbara of the state Building Trades Council is among those appearing with Cuomo

He had a few budget asks of the administration which have made it into a final deal

Details: cityandstateny.com/articles/perso…

"Javits was really the site in New York for COVID," Cuomo said. "When it started, it was the main center for dealing with COVID."

Actually, Javits was opened to much fanfare but barely used during the first wave of COVID

Javits bounced back from its seemingly 0 impact on the state response to the first wave by eventually becoming one heck of a vaccine site!

The budget is late by a week, but Cuomo is going on and on and on about the early days of the pandemic, a topic that we are all quite familiar with

Here is a good reminder for Gov. Andrew Cuomo who is strangely nostalgic for back when Javits Center was barely used for anything businessinsider.com/why-nycs-large…

"It's going to be Chapter II of NY Tough," Cuomo says of economic recovery

Cuomo says he was on a call w/WH/Biden/Fauci today

"We have not yet won the war," says Cuomo, who is governor of a state that now has one of the highest infection rates in the country

Nearly 15 minutes in, still waiting on Cuomo to announce something new ... I'm an optimist

"This past year has been hell," says Cuomo. "We've had to make a lot of decisions."

The man speaks in codes

"Want to know the toughest decision I had to make ..."

... "When I had to say to the ppl of NY: Stay Home" said Cuomo who announced a stay at home order days and days after experts and even BdB were pushing for it