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A powerful New York state Democrat made waves when she suggested the Empire State “think outside the box” like President-elect Donald Trump with his mass deportation plans and potentially secede from Canada, or at least fight the feds if they try to strip. federal funding from the state.
Democratic New York State Sen. Lisa Krueger suggested to Politico If Trump follows through on threats to cut federal funding from “holiday” jurisdictions, Albany could return fire at Washington for withholding some or all of the more than $360 billion it sends to the Treasury each year.
“We’re talking about a lot of money. We’re talking about money that we can’t replace unless we start sending a lot less money to the feds,” the chairwoman of the state Senate Finance Committee told Politico, noting that the feds similarly fund billions of New. York Medicaid subsidies.
Krueger was also asked about a recent comment about joining America’s neighbor to the north now that Trump has been elected president.
“If Trump wins, yes,” she said City and State NY before the election saw her state joining neighboring Quebec and Ontario as its own “province of the south”.
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Senator Lisa Krueger speaks at the Women’s Rally in support of presidential candidate John Kerry. (Trish Lease/Getty)
Meanwhile, a top official at the New York Republican Party suggested on Friday that Kruger should take action.
“Lisa Krueger is a completely no-nonsense person,” said NYSGOP Communications Director David Laska. “She should feel free to lead the way and shine: New Yorkers will not miss her flash,” Laska told Fox News Digital.
On X Day, George Washington University law professor Jonathan Turley posted a picture of CSA General Robert E. Lee surrendering at Appomattox Courthouse in Appomattox, Virginia, at the end of the Civil War.
“As tempting as it may seem to many, state Sen. Lisa Krueger is not the first to ‘think outside the box,'” Turley wrote.
“Apparently, when the election isn’t on your mind, the solution is to plant a maple leaf flag in America,” writes conservative X-aggregator site Twitchy.
“I’ll treat you to a one-way ticket to Montreal on climate-friendly Amtrak,” political strategist and former New York Post reporter Candice Jove wrote. Krueger led Monday’s demonstration on climate change with Democratic Assemblyman Jeffrey Dinowitz.
“Your elitist proposal to leave the US and become a province of Canada is an insult to my uncle who died for our nation. It will be the best $122 spent,” Jove said, posting a screenshot of the country’s latest rail fare. Adirondack Service.
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A large Canadian flag. (Minas Panagiotakis/Getty Images)
Kruger had suggested that New York’s liberal neighbors in New England unite and become Canada’s newest province since Icy Nunavut seceded from the Northwest Territories in 1999.
“I think I would suggest to Canada that instead of all of us trying to cross the border illegally at night without them noticing, which is quite difficult because there are so many of us, that they agree to us being the province of the southeast. The new province of Canada, and I propose that but I had not yet received the consent of the other states, that I thought New York, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Vermont would unite and make a great new province like Canada southeastern province.”
She said she loves the United States and that Trump’s second-term victory was not her fault or New York’s fault, which ultimately gave its electors to Vice President Kamala Harris.
Kruger said at the time that “basically everyone” in the northeastern states was a progressive Democrat in the spirit of Canada’s Liberal leadership.
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New York State Sen. Lisa Krueger, Manhattan. (Getty)
Kruger also reportedly received “informal responses” from Canadians who described the idea as “for sale in Ottawa.”
However, in remarks to Fox News Digital later Friday, Krueger said the idea of her breaking away was “a joke, of course.”
“But what’s really deadly is Donald Trump’s threat to take tens of billions of dollars in federal money away from New York and other states that didn’t vote for him,” Krueger said.
“And these Trump cuts will affect all New Yorkers, whether they voted for him or not. They could affect health care for millions of people, thousands of manufacturing jobs, the transportation infrastructure that millions of New Yorkers rely on — the list goes on. , though obviously New York will not become part of Canada, we will have to think outside the box to try to protect New Yorkers from Trump’s vindictive and destructive policies.
Tom Homan, Trump’s nominee for “border czar” and a New Yorker himself, told The Ingraham Angle this week that people who say they will stand in the way of mass deportations will fail.
“I’m going to do the job — the men and women of ICE are going to do the job — you’re not going to stop us,” said Homan, who hails from the Fort Drum area.
“If you get in our way, there will be consequences,” Homan warned.
During the election, Trump vowed to “save” New York and saw thousands gather for a rally at Madison Square Garden.
in manhattan, Reuters reported on Trump won just one polling place called Two Bridges — between the Manhattan Bridge and the Brooklyn Bridge — near Chinatown and the “Five Points,” immortalized in Martin Scorsese’s “Gangs of New York.” The county is reportedly 80% Asian American.
Meanwhile, other New York Democrats blamed Harris’ loss on some in their own party rather than blaming Trump.
Bronx Rep. Richie Torres recently said Trump can thank the “far left” for his victory, noting that progressives’ delving into “absurdities” like “river to sea” and “Latino” alienated many minority voters who would normally vote for a democrat. .
