Cuomo hints Trump is reason for IDC-Democratic truce
President Donald Trump and Republicans in Washington, D.C. are a big part of the reason the state Senate’s Independent Democratic Conference (IDC) rejoined the Senate’s mainstream Democrats on Wednesday after years of estrangement, Gov. Andrew Cuomo hinted in his announcement of the new agreement.
“New York is under attack by an ultraconservative government in Washington that is threatening the progressive soul and economic base of our state. Everything we stand for, they are against. Today, we are uniting the Democratic Party to fight a common enemy for the greater good,” Cuomo said his statement after state Sen. Andrea Stewart-Cousins (D-Westchester), leader the main group of Democrats, and state Sen. Jeff Klein (D-Bronx), IDC chairman, had reached a tentative agreement to have IDC’s eight members rejoin their Democratic brethren.
Under the agreement, IDC, which was formed in 2011, has disbanded. IDC had aligned itself with state senate Republicans, giving the GOP control of the legislative chamber.
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