Especially when there're clear political motivations for an opposition governor to make impossible public demands. He can claim a moral victory for everything he gets; if the diversion of resources hurts someone else, he doesn't pay the political cost; anything bad that happens he will blame on the federal level - "I asked, HE didn't deliver."

One state, is demanding a third of the resources that might eventually be available, purchased with tax dollars taken from the whole country.
That sounds like a New York problem. To be solved with the same can-do spirit with which New Yorkers are determined to defy the rest of the country on issues such as immigration control, and abortion.

That doesn't mean they are entitled to have them. Every bureaucrat wants to expand his turf and every employee who isn't responsible for budgets wants the most expensive toys to play with. And every one of them will insist they NEED these things urgently, because they are not the ones who pay the price to get them.

The article is citing lobbyists agitating for their personal interests as if they are an objective indication of anything but those parties' desires. I would bet whatever corporate distributer is publishing this thing wouldn't dream of citing corporate lobbyists' positions in the same manner.

Source?

So we're finally seeing a return to that lauded civility across the aisle the media regrets the passing of, every time Republicans criticize Democrats.

Spoken like someone who's spent most of his life dealing with contractors. Almost as if lots of Trump voters actually cited that experience among their reasons for preferring him.
No thanks. The article was my limit on nonsense for now.

Long years of dealing with the Cuomo family's bullshit?