Gov. Andrew Cuomo isn’t too concerned about the future of the Department of Housing and Urban Development under a Romney administration.

Romney, who will likely score an easy layup today in New York’s Republican presidential primary, said last week at a private gathering that HUD “might not be around” if he defeats President Obama in the fall.

But Cuomo, a HUD secretary from 1997 through 2001, doesn’t think there will be a Romney administration at all and today called the former Massachusett governor’s statement “irrelevant.”

“I don’t think he’s going to be president, so I think it’s irrelevant,” he said rather bluntly.

Cuomo frequently references his time at HUD, which he’s cast as a formative time for him to learn the levers of power in Washington and be able to administer and reshape a vast bureaucracy.

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