On the heels of several unexpected federal funding cuts to New York, Gov. Kathy Hochul and a number of other elected officials gathered to denounce Republicans over the federal government shutdown that began at midnight.

In a lower Manhattan park with the Statue of Liberty as a backdrop, Hochul laid the blame for the second government shutdown under President Donald Trump squarely on the GOP. “This shutdown is a choice, a deliberate decision by Donald Trump and the Republicans to abandon the very people they were sent to Washington to represent,” she said. “And they alone are responsible for this.” The governor highlighted the over 100,000 federal workers in the state – including those who maintain the Statue of Liberty – who have been furloughed as a result of the shutdown, as well as th

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