A strong New York State Democrat made waves when she recommended the Empire State “think outside the box” like President-elect Donald Trump is together with his mass-deportation plans and doubtlessly secede to Canada, or not less than battle the feds in the event that they attempt to strip federal funding from the state.
New York state Democratic Sen. Liz Krueger recommended to Politico if Trump follows via with a reported menace to slash federal funding from “sanctuary” jurisdictions, Albany may return fireplace in opposition to Washington for holding again some or all the greater than $360 billion it yearly sends to the Treasury.
“We’re talking a lot of money. We’re talking money we couldn’t possibly replace unless we started sending the feds a lot less money,” the state Senate Finance Committee chairwoman advised Politico, noting the feds equally fund billions in New York Medicaid subsidies.
Krueger was additionally requested a couple of latest remark about becoming a member of America’s neighbor to the north now that Trump is president-elect.
“If Trump won, yes,” she advised Metropolis & State NY previous to the election, relating to having her state be part of neighboring Quebec and Ontario as its personal “southern province.”
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Sen. Liz Krueger speaks on the Ladies’s Rally in help of presidential candidate John Kerry. (Trish Lease/Getty)
In the meantime, a high official within the New York Republican Social gathering recommended Friday that Krueger have at it.
“Liz Krueger is a completely unserious person,” mentioned David Laska, communications director for the NYSGOP. “She should feel free to lead the way and expatriate: New Yorkers won’t miss her bloviating,” Laska advised Fox Information Digital.
On X, George Washington College legislation professor Jonathan Turley posted a picture of CSA Gen. Robert E. Lee surrendering at Appomattox Court docket Home in Appomattox, Virginia, on the finish of the Civil Struggle.
“While perhaps tempting for many, State Sen. Liz Krueger is not the first to ‘think outside the box’,” Turley wrote.
“Apparently, when elections don’t go your way, the solution is to plant the Maple Leaf flag in America,” wrote the conservative X aggregator web site Twitchy.
“I’ll treat you to a one-way ticket to Montreal on the climate-friendly Amtrak,” wrote political strategist and former New York Put up reporter Candice Giove. Krueger had headlined a Monday local weather change demonstration with Democratic Assemblyman Jeffrey Dinowitz.
“Your elitist proposal to leave the U.S. and become a Canadian province is an insult to my uncle, who died for our nation. It’ll be the best $122 spent,” Giove mentioned, posting a screenshot of the most recent fare for the nationwide railroad’s “Adirondack” service.
A big Canadian flag. (Minas Panagiotakis/Getty Photographs)
Krueger had recommended New York’s fellow liberal New England neighbors band collectively and change into the latest Canadian province since icy Nunavut break up from the Northwest Territories in 1999.
“I thought I would suggest to Canada that instead of us all trying to illegally cross the border at night without them noticing, which is pretty hard because there’s a lot of us, that they should instead agree to let us be the southeast province, a new province of Canada, and I offered, even though I hadn’t gotten agreement from other states yet, that I thought New York, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Vermont, would combine and be a great new province as the southeast province of Canada.”
She mentioned she loves the U.S. and that Trump successful a second time period just isn’t her fault or that of New York – which finally awarded its electors to Vice President Kamala Harris.
Krueger mentioned on the time that “basically everybody” within the northeastern states is a progressive Democrat within the vein of Canadian liberal management.
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New York State Sen. Liz Krueger, D-Manhattan. (Getty)
Krueger additionally reportedly obtained “unofficial responses” from Canadians who characterised the thought as “sellable in Ottawa.”
Nonetheless, in remarks to Fox Information Digital later Friday, Krueger mentioned her secession thought was a “joke, of course.”
“But what is actually deadly serious is the threat from Donald Trump to take away tens of billions of dollars in federal money from New York and other states that didn’t support him in the election,” Krueger mentioned.
“And those Trump cuts will affect all New Yorkers, whether they voted for him or not. They could impact healthcare coverage for millions of people, thousands of manufacturing jobs, transportation infrastructure that millions of New Yorkers rely on – the list goes on. So, though obviously New York is not going to become part of Canada, we will need to think outside the box to try to protect New Yorkers from Trump’s vindictive and destructive policies.”
Tom Homan, Trump’s “border czar”-designate and an upstate New York native himself, advised “The Ingraham Angle” this week that individuals who say they may stand in the best way of mass deportation proceedings will fail.
“I’m going to do this job – the men and women of ICE are going to do this job – you’re not going to stop us,” mentioned Homan, who hails from the Fort Drum space.
“If you impede us there’s going to be consequences,” Homan warned.
In the course of the election, Trump pledged to “save” New York and noticed 1000’s collect for a rally at Madison Sq. Backyard.
In Manhattan, Reuters reported Trump solely received a single voting precinct referred to as Two Bridges – between the Manhattan Bridge and Brooklyn Bridge – close to each Chinatown and the “Five Points” immortalized in Martin Scorsese’s “Gangs of New York.” The realm is reportedly 80% Asian American.
In the meantime, different New York Democrats blamed some inside their very own occasion for Harris’ loss as an alternative of lambasting Trump.
Rep. Ritchie Torres of The Bronx lately mentioned Trump can thank the “far left” for his win, suggesting progressives delving into “absurdities” like “from the river to the sea” and “Latinx” alienated many minority voters who would usually vote Democrat.
