Cuomo, Murphy Call for More Covid Relief to Hardest-Hit States

  • High-tax state governors also called for repeal of SALT cap
  • New York and New Jersey tax deductions now capped at $10,000

People wearing protective masks line up outside a Covid-19 vaccination hub inside Yankee Stadium in the Bronx borough of New York on Feb. 5.

Photographer: Angus Mordant/Bloomberg
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Governors Andrew Cuomo of New York and Phil Murphy of New Jersey said Congress should apportion stimulus money in a way that gives more to states hardest-hit by the novel coronavirus.

“We say to the Congress now: be fair,” Cuomo said Friday during a virus briefing, where he was joined virtually by Murphy. “Fair is to distribute the Covid relief funds proportionate to the damage of Covid.”