Cuomo: Trump New York quarantine would be ‘federal declaration of war’
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Andrew Cuomo, the New York governor, warned on Saturday of “chaos and mayhem” if Donald Trump pressed ahead with a proposal for an enforced regional quarantine, saying such a move would be “a federal declaration of war”.
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