This is not notable.
The CBO is notoriously incompetent at projecting the actual costs and financial ramifications of most of the spending billsauthorized by congress.
Your sauce cites the role of CMS calculations in the CBO projections. The Center for Medicare Services has an agenda of its own. It is an entirely separate entity from the CBO.
Not notable. The CBO has a longstanding reputation for accounting incompetence. It has always been an artive part of the con in congress.
BAKER NOTABLE
The "open letter" is posted on the NY state governor's website, which means it is entirely endorsed by NY Governor Cuomo, perhaps even authored by Cuomo himself.
This letter constitutes Cuomo calling out AOC for her actions which have ultimately impacted the entire economy of New York State.
"First, some labor unions attempted to exploit Amazon's New York entry. The RWDSU Union was interested in organizing the Whole Foods grocery store workers, a subsidiary owned by Amazon, and they deployed several 'community based organizations' (which RWDSU funds) to oppose the Amazon transaction as negotiation leverage. It backfired. Initially, Whole Foods grocery stores had nothing to do with this transaction. It is a separate company. While Amazon is not a unionized workforce, Amazon had agreed to union construction and service worker jobs that would have provided 11,000 thousand union positions.
"New York State also has the most pro-worker legal protections of any state in the country. Organizing Amazon, or Whole Foods workers, or any company for that matter, is better pursued by allowing them to locate here and then making an effort to unionize the workers, rather than making unionization a bar to entrance. If New York only allows unionized companies to enter, our economy is unsustainable, and if one union becomes the enemy of other unions, the entire union movement - already in decline - is undermined and damaged.
"Second, some Queens politicians catered to minor, but vocal local political forces in opposition to the Amazon government incentives as 'corporate welfare.' Ironically, much of the visible 'local' opposition, which was happy to appear at press conferences and protest at City Council hearings during work hours, were actual organizers paid by one union: RWDSU. (If you are wondering if that is even legal, probably not). Even more ironic is these same elected officials all signed a letter of support for Amazon at the Long Island City location and in support of the application. They were all for it before Twitter convinced them to be against it.
"While there is always localized opposition, in this case it was taken to a new level. The State Senate transferred decision-making authority to a local Senator, who, after first supporting the Amazon project, is now vociferously opposed to it, and even recommended appointing him to a State panel charged with approving the project's financing. Amazon assumed that the hostile appointment doomed the project. Of course the Governor would never accept a Senate nomination of an opponent to the project and the Governor told that to Amazon directly. The relevant question for Amazon then became whether the Senate would appoint an alternative who would approve the project."
https://www.governor.ny.gov/news/open-letter-new-york-state-budget-director-robert-mujica-regarding-amazon
Cuomo has long held aspirations of running for president. The death of the Amazon deal signals, in my opinion, the death of Cuomo's dream. You can bet that he is pissed. AOC has cultivated a powerful enemy in one of the most powerful governors in the country.
Why are you attempting to discredit anon's wholly legit concerns about one of the most senior senators and most powerful men in congress who has unabashedly articulated his allegiance to Israel?
Chuck Shumer, D-NY, has even said that his last name is a derivation of the Hebrew word 'schomer' which means 'guardian', and that he sees himself as the "guardian of Israel" in the United States Senate.
But you choose to point out something that went down in Britain….what kind of patriot are you, anon?