Andrew Cuomo Wants To Spearhead His Party’s Campaign Against Trump

New York City mayoral candidate Democrat Andrew Cuomo is seeking to take his local campaign to a national scale despite multiple ongoing and previous controversies.

The former Governor of New York said in an interview with POLITICO that his campaign will focus on pushing against Trump’s proposed cuts to Medicaid not only in his potential mayoral jurisdiction, but across the country. Cuomo slammed President Donald Trump’s decision to cut Medicaid’s funding, adding that the move could cost Republicans the House of Representatives.

“He’s cutting Medicaid. Medicaid is not a blue-city, blue-state situation,” Cuomo told POLITICO. “That is in every state. That is a lot of red Congressional districts. And he could lose the House on cutting Medicaid if you organized it and got it moving.”

Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill Act,” as passed by the House, would cut approximately $600 billion from Medicaid, according to an estimate from the Congressional Budget Office. The bill disallows benefits to illegal aliens, those who are enrolled more than once, people who are choosing not to work and those who are already receiving benefits elsewhere, according to Indiana Republican Representative Erin Houchin.

Cuomo said he would become a “spokesperson, advocate, organizer” for Medicaid, telling POLITICO he “would spend eight years in Washington — go to that U.S. Conference of Mayors, go to the National Governors Association.”