The Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island are staying open through the federal government’s partial shutdown due to intervention from Albany.
New York state taxpayers will keep the monuments up and running as usual, with full staffs and a regular schedule of ferries to the islands.
Gov. Cuomo will spend $65,000 a day to keep the sites open, his office said Saturday, following the same playbook the governor used during government shutdowns in January and in 2013.
“We will not allow President Trump’s repugnant symbol of division [to] close the true representations of who we are as a state and a nation,” Cuomo said in a statement.
Cuomo has an inauguration bash planned for Jan. 1 on Ellis Island.
The governors of Arizona and Utah are funding similar efforts at the Grand Canyon, Zion National Park and other popular sites.