The feuding between the New York governor and New York City mayor over the handling of the pandemic has gone on for weeks, including disagreements over calling for shelter-in-place, requiring people to wear masks in public and closing playgrounds.
The feuding over the handling of the pandemic has gone on for weeks, including disagreements over calling for shelter-in-place, requiring people to wear masks in public and closing playgrounds in New York City. But this latest back-and-forth between the lifelong New Yorkers and Democrats -- unlike past spats about everything from workouts to napping to deer euthanasia -- has real-life implications while New York struggles as the nation's worst hot spot.
Cuomo's team argued over the weekend that it is the governor, not the mayor, who has the authority to reopen schools, citing an order he signed in March that initially closed schools regionally.Melissa DeRosa, a top Cuomo aide, said on Sunday that all schools in the area are"on the same schedule" through April 29 because of that order.
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