One effect of the US being pushed over the budget is that the national monument the Statue of Liberty on Liberty Island in New York has been kept closed to visitors since Saturday when parts of the state apparatus shut down. However, New York State Governor Andrew Cuomo now promises to use state money to reopen the tourist attraction.<\/p>\n
\u2013 We will speak with the government as soon as someone picks up the phone, says Cuomo, who calls the closure of the statue a \u201dgreat injustice\u201d.<\/p>\n
During the previous US government shutdown in 2013, a number of governors used state funds to keep national parks and state monuments open, including the Statue of Liberty. At that time, it cost $61,600 (over SEK 490,000) per day to keep the Statue of Liberty open.<\/p>\n
Cuomo, who belongs to the Democrats, justifies his decision by stating that the statue is a symbol of the USA and of New York.<\/p>\n
Source: TT-Reuters<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
En effekt av att USA knuffats \u00f6ver budgetsupet \u00e4r att nationalmonumentet Frihetsgudinnan p\u00e5 Liberty Island i New York har h\u00e5llits st\u00e4ngd f\u00f6r bes\u00f6kare sedan i l\u00f6rdags d\u00e5 delar av statsapparaten bommade igen. Men nu lovar delstaten New Yorks guvern\u00f6r Andrew Cuomo anv\u00e4nda delstatspengar f\u00f6r att \u00f6ppna turistattraktionen igen. \u2013 Vi kommer att tala med regeringen […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[184],"tags":[1494,1495],"class_list":["post-231112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-turism","tag-frihetsgudinnan","tag-guvernor"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n