Newsweek reached out to Krueger for comment via e-mail.
New York sends approximately $362 billion each year in tax revenue to the federal government but receives roughly $85 billion in federal funding, much of which is set aside for Medicaid spending, according to Politico.
“It’s not our job to pick up the pitchforks that have been dropped by his many followers,” Long Island Assembly member Chuck Lavine said in a recent interview with Politico‘s New York Playbook.
While Vice President Kamala Harris secured the majority of votes needed to win the Empire state, Trump received 44 percent of the vote, according to The Associated Press, with New York coming its closest to turning red in almost four decades, per reports from The New York Post.
