There's no force of law behind this order.
Earlier this week he announced "mortgage relief," but its means-tested and difficult to actually navigate. It won't help.
A year or 2 ago he rolled out his "free college for every new yorker" plan. It benefits about 10% of the population.
Cuomo's only skill is talking a big game. He's exactly as bad as most other neolibs.
It may be falsely advertised if it was claimed as “free college for every New Yorker” but I’m hard pressed to understand why people who support things like tuition free college programs get so angry about steps in that direction.
Even if it’s only 10% of that 2 million people that actually need to go college it’s still 200,000 Americans that are better off than they were before.
And didn’t NY’s legislature not turn blue until November of 2019?
I may be wrong, but if helping hundreds of thousands of low income Americans get access to higher education means your only skill is “talking a big game” and makes you a “bad neolib” I’m not sure that’s a message I can get behind.
I don’t know all of Cuomo’s policies or history, he may indeed be a bad Governor, but I really have trouble understand the people who shit on others for moving us in a positive direction because it’s not 100% of the way there yet.