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The Democratic governors from Minnesota, Washington and New York are resisting Donald Trump’s calls to ‘liberate’ their states and slammed the president for his encouragement of protesters who have flouted social distancing rules and taken to the streets to demand lockdowns end. Minnesota’s Democratic Governor Walz clapped back at Trump’s call to ‘liberate’ the state … Read more
Americans have taken part in mass protests after President Donald Trump urged supporters to ‘liberate’ states from governors’ stringent coronavirus lockdowns. Demonstrators rallied in the streets waving huge USA flags and called for the country to reopen despite the pandemic ripping through the country. Thousands raced to the Florida coastline after Governor Ron DeSantis gave the … Read more
President Trump made himself the star of the ‘lockdown rebellion’ by tweeting ‘LIBERATE Minnesota’ and then adding Michigan and Virginia to the list of states that should be freed. The tweets came one day after the president’s coronavirus taskforce rolled out guidelines that would give governors broad power to decide when states’ economies would open … Read more
BREAKING NEWS: Donald Trump tells governors it is up to THEM when they open their states up – abandoning claim of ‘total authority’ to decide and unveiling three-phase ‘guidelines’ The White House released guidelines for reopening the country Trump holds a news conference at 6 pm EDT to discuss them One benchmark is a sustained … Read more
President Donald Trump will unveil his plan to reopen the country in a phone call with governors Thursday afternoon even as some of the nation’s top CEOs told him there needs to be more coronavirus testing before the economy can get going again. Despite warnings from CEOs and health care professionals alike, President Trump has … Read more
BREAKING NEWS: Donald Trump claims U.S. has ‘passed the peak’ of coronavirus cases and doubles down on claim that governors are ‘chomping at the bit’ to reopen the economy BEFORE May 1 By Nikki Schwab, Senior U.s. Political Reporter For Dailymail.com Published: 23:37 BST, 15 April 2020 | Updated: 23:46 BST, 15 April 2020 President … Read more
President Donald Trump on Tuesday abandoned his push for ‘total authority’ to reopen the country and said he would leave the decision in the hands of the individual governors of each state. ‘I will be speaking to all 50 governors very shortly. And I will then be authorizing each individual governor of each individual state … Read more
Trump pushes back against national shutdown order and leaves the decision up to each state’s governors, despite projections THOUSANDS could die from coronavirus President Trump is letting governors of individual states decide whether to issue shelter-in-place orders Only states can decide whether to quarantine their residents The federal government can only issue quarantines for foreigners … Read more