21 September 2022: Cuomo Won't Testify Before Congress About COVID Nursing Home Deaths

Andrew Cuomo ducks House invite to testify about his nursing home deaths scandal

Andrew M. Cuomo has turned down an opportunity to voluntarily come clean about the role of his deadly 25 March 2020 directive in contributing to excess COVID deaths in New York's nursing homes during the early months of the coronavirus pandemic.

Former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo ignored an invitation to testify Wednesday at a congressional hearing focused on COVID-19 deaths in nursing homes.

Republicans on the House Select Subcommittee on the coronavirus last week publicly asked Cuomo to appear to answer questions about his 2020 order requiring nursing homes to take coronavirus-positive patients.

“We asked him to testify at this very hearing and he still to this day has not even responded,” said Rep. Steve Scalise (R-La.), who tweeted a letter addressed to Cuomo asking him to appear.

“He’s not participating,” Scalise said. “He didn’t even feel that he owed those victims a response to the questions we had for him.”

Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY) told The Post that Republicans intend to use subpoena powers to investigate Cuomo’s order and his administration’s admitted subsequent coverup of death statistics if the GOP retakes the House in the November midterm elections.

Andrew M. Cuomo can reasonably expect to face legal problems related to his fateful choices as New York's governor for years to come and his attempts to evade their consequences.