Former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, after being subpoenaed last month, has agreed to testify to Congress about his controversial nursing home advisory from the early days of the Covid-19 pandemic, Rep. Brad Wenstrup told CNN’s Jake Tapper on Friday.
“Governor Cuomo will be appearing before our select Subcommittee on the Pandemic on June 11,” Wenstrup, the Ohio Republican who chairs the panel, said on “The Lead.” “This will be a transcribed interview at 10 a.m.” Wenstrup said that lawmakers want to ask the former Democratic governor about the March 2020 advisory, which barred nursing homes from rejecting patients solely on the basis of a Covid-19 diagnosis. “I’m trying to learn why he would do something like this,” Wenstrup said.
The voluntary agreement means that Cuomo will participate with a transcribed interview rather than a deposition. Both formats require participants to tell the truth to Congress. A 2021 investigation by New York Attorney General Letitia James, a Democrat, found that the New York State Department of Health undercounted Covid-19 deaths among residents of nursing homes by approximately 50%, essentially by leaving out deaths of residents who had been transferred to hospitals.
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