April 14, 2020 – Albany | New York Governor Andrew Cuomo is battling President Trump over the authority that governors have to chart their own states’ course in response to the Coronavirus outbreak. On Monday, Cuomo and the governors of six other states said they were banding together to work on a coordinated plan for reopening businesses. The President responded that only he had the authority to decide when states could restart their economies. Mr. Cuomo disputed that at his daily briefing at the Capitol in Albany on Tuesday. The death toll in New York State rose again on Monday, to 778, after declining for two days. Cuomo said other indicators that measure the fight to contain the virus continued to be more encouraging.