Democratic New York Governor Kathy Hochul recently made an appearance on ABC’s “The View,” where she discussed the strain the ensuing migrant crisis is having on her state. However, instead of calling out the Biden administration for its lack of action regarding securing the southern border with Mexico, the governor blamed former President Donald Trump and Republicans.
Gov. Hochul noted that New York is struggling to keep its head above water amid the unfettered influx of migrants into the state, highlighting the massive financial burden it is causing. She then lamented how Congressional Republicans voted against awarding the state with federal funding, allegedly at the request of Donald Trump.
“We are doing the best we can to manage the influx get people housing, it is very expensive. And the state of New York is in for about $4.3 billion. I would like federal money and guess where the federal money is and why it’s being held up. The Republicans in Congress and in the Senate said no, because Donald Trump called them up one night, the night before they should have voted on this,” she told the panel.
She further complained about the partisan divide in Congress, calling on Republicans to compromise on the border. “Money for states like New York that would have helped us a lot and just have a different path to citizenship and look at the asylum and whether it’s too loose right now the way it’s being used and probably abused. So I blame the Republicans now, the mess was bipartisan before that Democrats and Republicans have not successfully found a way to have a path to legal citizenship because the employers want this,” Hochul added.
The liberal governor also called for Republicans to put pressure on their party to give in to further compromising on the border bill. Hochul then suggested that the only reason the GOP has hesitated to support the bill is that conservatives fear handing Joe Biden a win.
“I’ve said to the 10 Republicans in the House representatives who represent the great state of New York, told saw them at the State of the Union. I saw them I said, Why don’t you all march into speaker Johnson’s office tomorrow? Because there’s 10 of you. You know, that crazy Freedom Caucus, there’s only 11 of them. So use your voice say my state needs this, pass the bill that was a bipartisan compromise between conservative Republicans and Democrats, the President, and all was going to happen as a couple of weeks ago. And Donald Trump said, No, I don’t want Joe Biden to look good. Like he solved the problem,” she said.
The American Tribune reported last month on comments from Speaker Johnson criticizing the Senate’s passage of the bill, claiming there was no sufficient support for the border outlined in the legislation. However, Johnson had indicated he would not bring the bill to the House floor for a vote.
Watch footage from Gov. Hochul’s monologue during “The View” below:
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