Gov. Andrew Cuomo knocked Republican Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on Monday in a conference call with the Kentucky lawmaker's home governor Andy Beshear, daring him to introduce a bill that would allow states to declare bankruptcy. 

At the same time Cuomo also nudged Republican members of New York's House delegation to push for federal funds to aid New York after the state lost billions of dollars in revenue due to the coronavirus pandemic. 

Cuomo has been ratcheting up his anger at the federal government again as a stimulus package has stalled in Congress and President Donald Trump has signaled he would move forward with executive actions that could cost the state $4 billion in individual pandemic aid. 

"I understand the temptation to do executive orders and the ease of executive orders, but we also understand the limits of executive orders," Cuomo said.

Having cash-strapped state governments pick up 25 percent of pandemic aid costs for the unemployed is like "handing a drowning man an anchor," Cuomo said. 

But the stimulus legislation reamins unresolved in large part due to the disagreements between Republicans and Democrats over aiding states like New York. McConnell earlier this year suggested states could declare bankruptcy, which he later walked back. But Cuomo hasn't let that idea drop. 

"That would require federal legislation to allow a state to go bankrupt," he said in a conference call with Beshar.

"You would need to change the federal law. I challenge McConnell to pass that law. I challenge McConnell to do what he said. I challenge to do what he said and even propose the law to bankrupt states. He should propose it if he were telling the truth. Propose the law to bankrupt states and watch the markets plummet over night. They think they're going to help bring jobs back and bring back the economy? Then do it."

Cuomo also knocked New York Republicans in the House, who are in the minority, for not doing enough, specifically Reps. John Katko, Elise Stefanik and Lee Zeldin. 

Cuomo said the lawmakers "are playing their own protective politics and have not called out the president."