renaming the lake<\/a> to Lake America, amid tensions between the U.S. and Canada.<\/p>\nReaction has been swift.<\/p>\n
Gov. Kathy Hochul’s statement was succinct:<\/p>\n
U.S. Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer released the following statement: \u201cInstead of lowering costs and cancelling his damaging tariffs, Trump is doubling down on a juvenile effort to rename one of the Great Lakes. He\u2019s escalating his reckless tariff war with our closest trading partner and ally, which will continue to drive up costs for Upstate New York families, seniors and small businesses. It\u2019s a pathetic attempt at distraction, and it\u2019s working families who are paying the price.\u201d<\/p>\n
Vermont Gov. Phil Scott shared his thoughts in a post on X<\/p>\n
As did Maine Gov. Janet Mills:<\/p>\n
Representative John W. Mannion (NY-22) today released the following statement: \u201cLike most of Upstate New York and the people I represent, I\u2019ll keep calling it Lake Ontario. This is just another silly distraction from the Trump White House.\u201d<\/p>\n
NYS Senator Jeremy Cooney of Rochester said: \u201cNothing President Trump can do will take away what all Rochesterians know\u2014it\u2019s Lake Ontario. Full stop. This is yet another attempt by a deeply unpopular President to distract from what\u2019s really important. Families are struggling to put food on the table, seniors are facing crushing healthcare costs, and hardworking Americans can\u2019t keep up with skyrocketing utility bills. That is what our focus should be, not petty grudges with New York\u2019s closest economic partner.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK STATE (WRGB) \u2014 Leaders from around New York state and nearby states are responding to President…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":331519,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9,11,10,49,51,50],"class_list":["post-331518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-new-york-state","tag-new-york-state-headlines","tag-new-york-state-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=331518"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331518\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/331519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=331518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=331518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=331518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}