[ April 24, 2024 ]
President Trump will issue guidelines today to governors on how to reopen parts of U.S. society, after spending much of the previous day consulting with business leaders on the damage wrought by the coronavirus pandemic.
President Trump new federal guidelines Opening up America Again includes proposed state or regional "gating" criteria before phased openings. After states satisfy the gating list, there are 3 “phased opening” that gradually ease the social distancing guidelines pic.twitter.com/4rETCVD11K
— Mona Salama (@ByMonaSalama) April 16, 2020
🚨BREAKING🚨
The “Opening Up America Again”plan has been released.
This is a Three Phased approach that requires States to meet specific data-driven criteria in terms of Symptoms, Cases, and Hospitals before proceeding to the next phase. pic.twitter.com/jEkeHLhyu9
— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) April 16, 2020
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NYP: President Trump is pushing to get Americans back to normal life from coronavirus lockdowns within weeks under new reopening guidelines shared with governors on Thursday, The Post has learned. The “Opening Up American Again” guidelines, a copy of which was obtained by The Post, say states that show a downward trend in COVID-19 cases will be able to reopen their restaurants, bars, theaters, workplaces, sporting centers and gyms as soon as May 1. Trump told governors on a conference call that “you’re gonna call your shots,” saying the guidelines were a recommendation.
“Bottom line, if you’re ready and you have those beautiful, low numbers like some of you have, let’s get going, let’s open up your state,” Trump told state leaders in a largely friendly call in which he praised governors for their hard work.
Under the guidelines, states will need to demonstrate a downward trajectory of COVID-19 cases over a 14-day period and a “robust” system for testing health care workers before they can proceed to a phased opening. Phase 1 recommends continued social distancing, closure of schools, teleworking and sheltering in place for vulnerable individuals.
Major News Conference tonight, the White House at 6:00 P.M. (Eastern), to explain Guidelines for OPENING UP AMERICA AGAIN!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 16, 2020
Trump’s Guidelines to Reopen Economy Put Onus on Governors
The president is planning to outline plans for reopening the country at a Thursday news conference
Wall Street Journal, April 16, 2020:
WASHINGTON—President Trump is planning to outline new federal guidelines for opening up the country that will put the onus on governors to decide how to restart the economies in their states amid mounting fallout from the coronavirus outbreak.
The new guidelines come as lawmakers and business leaders press the administration to expand virus testing, and days after Mr. Trump said that he—not governors—was the final arbiter on when to reopen the country.“The buck stops with the governors,” said one senior administration official involved with the planning.
The new guidelines, formally known as Opening Up America Again, will include medical data on a county-by-county level, White House officials said. The guidelines won’t suggest reopening dates, and it was unclear whether they would provide a recommendation on a time frame to reopen based on the data.
The president previewed the guidelines during a call with governors this afternoon, the officials said.
“You’re going to call your own shots,” Mr. Trump told the governors, according to a person who was briefed on the call. “We’ll be standing right alongside of you and we’re going to get our country open.”The president will formally announce the guidelines during a Thursday evening White House news conference. A White House official said there was consensus on the new guidelines from the administration’s public health advisers, including Drs. Anthony Fauci and Deborah Birx, who have been advising the president.
Lifting the restrictions has been the subject of fierce debate both inside and outside the Trump administration, at times pitting economic policy makers eager to reverse massive job losses against public health experts concerned about a resurgence of cases.
It will ultimately be up to individual governors to formally lift state stay-at-home orders. While some governors are looking to the federal government for guidance and may feel political pressure to follow Mr. Trump’s lead, most governors will make the decision based on evolving conditions in their states.Some states have already extended restrictions past April 30. New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, a Democrat, said Thursday that nonessential businesses in his state would remain closed at least through May 15, and that he had coordinated the decision with other states.
In recent days, Mr. Trump has touted his relationships with governors, stressing that he will work closely with them as they weigh plans to reopen. During a Wednesday news conference, the president maintained that the federal government has the power to overrule governors’ decisions about reopening, a contention that is disputed by constitutional experts.
“We would have the right to close down what they’re doing if we want to do that,” he said. “But we don’t want to do that.”
At the same time, the president has emphasized that states have responsibility for obtaining crucial medical supplies and coronavirus tests, positioning the federal government, which has faced criticism for its response to the outbreak, as a backup. The president has criticized some governors, including Mr. Cuomo, with the two men publicly trading barbs in recent days.
Public health experts, including some in the Trump administration, have warned that reopening the country too soon could prompt a second wave of coronavirus cases, undercut ongoing mitigation efforts and overwhelm the health-care system. Dr. Fauci, the government’s top infectious disease expert, said this week that the country lacked the testing and virus-tracing capabilities needed to reopen. Some business executives raised similar concerns during a teleconference with Mr. Trump on Wednesday.
Mr. Trump held phone briefings on Thursday with House and Senate lawmakers. The White House is setting up a coronavirus advisory group made up of elected officials, part of a broader task force of more than 200 business executives that Mr. Trump established this week.The president opened a call with several House lawmakers by touting his response to the coronavirus pandemic, saying he had done a lot of things right, according to people who were on the call.
Lawmakers from both parties repeatedly told the White House that testing for coronavirus needed to be expanded to reopen the government, as well as contact tracing.
Vice President Mike Pence said that the guidelines they plan to release would be a checklist for states to use. “If they meet various criteria, then they are good to go, and in the absence of that, then they might not be,” one of the people said of the vice president’s remarks. Mr. Pence didn’t go into detail, according to two people on the call.
On a separate call with senators, Mr. Trump again heard bipartisan calls to ramp up testing. He said the country’s testing system had steadily advanced, according to a person familiar with the matter. He pointed to a newly developed saliva test, arguing it would make it easier for people to determine whether they have the virus.
The U.S. has conducted more than 3 million tests for Covid-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus, since the start of the outbreak. Experts say the level of testing would need to increase to millions of tests a week before Americans can return to work in large numbers.
In an interview with ABC News on Wednesday, Dr. Fauci sought to play down expectations about reopening the country in its entirety and instead characterized the process as a “rolling re-entry.”
Because of varying caseloads in different states, Dr. Fauci said, “There will be some areas of the country which will really be much, much more attuned to and ready to be able to get more towards the normality than others.”
Dr. Fauci again emphasized the need for mechanisms to contain the virus, such as rapid testing and contact tracing, to be in place in order for officials to slowly lift current restrictions on the public.
Mr. Trump is eager to reopen the country as soon as possible, according to White House officials, who are closely tracking the ailing economy. Another 5.2 million Americans filed for unemployment benefits last week, bringing the total seeking aid in a month of coronavirus-related shutdowns to 22 million.
The president has said he is consulting with his administration’s health experts as he crafts the guidelines. The president extended the administration’s initial set of social distancing guidelines through the end of April after consulting with Dr. Fauci and Dr. Birx, the White House coronavirus coordinator. Mr. Trump has said he believes some states can reopen before the current social-distancing guidelines lapse.
“I can assure you that the guidance being put out today is in line with what the experts are saying, it’s in line with what the data is showing, and it’s a plan to put this economy back on track,” White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany said in an interview with Fox News on Thursday.
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28 Comments
4 years ago
Glad to see forked tongue Fauci is not present. He’s hiding….ideally with shame but doubful.
4 years ago
starting to get the feeling this whole shitshow is an open petri dish of global proportions much like an ant farm – just look to see who benefits after the fact
4 years ago
Reply to
Halal Bacon
I spoke too soon. Fauci is there! I wonder which LIBERAL journalist will he smile at and THUMP UP today? He is such a sleaze. Fauci makes a stereotype corrupt used salesman have credibility.
Let states hardly affected OPEN completely. Let other states with hot spots keep the hot spots closed down. We don’t want a depression or a collapse of our economy. I find all these guidelines to be tedious, too controlling and prolonging the shut down.
4 years ago
Reply to
Halal Bacon
Ah, NO thumbs up to a liberal journalist today by Fauci. Maybe he has been told to knock it off?
4 years ago
Reply to
felix1999
When such a high percentage of the population are unemployed, I’d say that the economy has already collapsed.
And, the collapse is, in its entirety, the fault of government, with emphasis placed on local and state.
4 years ago
Reply to
Halal Bacon
They seem to me to be experimenting to see how far and how much they can push. Whoever the hell ‘they’ actually are. There definitely feels like some malignant mofos are at work behind the scenes.
4 years ago
Like clockwork, FAUX, er FOX news has another poll showing the demise of Trump. Watch the stock market go UP.
Trump approval rating slides in new poll as coronavirus grips the nation
By Paul Steinhauser | Fox News 4/16/20
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A new poll suggests that President Trump’s approval rating has slipped 6 percentage points over the past month amid the coronavirus pandemic health crisis which has forced the shuttering of much of the nation’s economy.
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https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-approval-rating-slides-poll-coronavirus
Other polls say the opposite!
Remember – Trisha Reagan was fired for stating the obvious about the virus on FOX…. Biden is not all there and he doesn’t seem to be listening to his handlers.
Fox News Hires Joe Biden Former Chief-of-Staff…..
Posted on March 21, 2019 by sundance
NEWSMAX – The parent company of Fox News has hired a former top aide to Joe Biden as its chief lobbyist in Washington. On Tuesday the new Fox Corp., a spin-off of 21st Century Fox which just merged with Disney, became a standalone public company, controlling television assets such as Fox News and the Fox television network.
Broadcasting & Cable reported that new Fox “hit the ground running on day one” with its Washington lobbying operation headed by Danny O’Brien, a well-known Democrat. O’Brien was brought on last October as executive vice president and head of government relations for the Fox Corp. Previously, he had served as Senator Joe Biden’s chief of staff and went on to head Biden’s 2008 presidential campaign. (read more)
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/obrien-fox-lobbyist-biden/2019/03/21/id/908059/
Fox News Chairman and founder, billionaire Rupert Murdoch, has a long-held nickname: “Mr. Wall Street”.
President Trump’s nationalist economic policies are directly adverse to the interests of Wall Street, the globalists multinationals (banks and corps), the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Business Roundtable and K-Street lobbyists. All of them are losing money, power and influence under the America First trade reset carried out by President Trump.
The aforementioned groups will predictably do anything to remove the pesky President Trump; there are trillions at stake. Just like their support shifted from Jeb to Hillary when candidate Trump defeated their scheme in 2016, the global multinational community is guaranteed to support the DNC club’s “chosen candidate”.
It is becoming increasingly likely that chosen global candidate will be Joe Biden. Like we have shared numerous times, nothing inside the club happens organically. There is always a planned strategy behind everything.
Fox News hiring Donna Brazile as a political analyst; and Fox News hiring Paul Ryan as one of the small group board members…. now takes on a new dynamic with the revelation that Fox News hired Joe Biden’s former chief-of-staff, Danny O’Brien, as their primary legislative lobbyist on K-Street. Danny O’Brian now steps conveniently into the role of emissary between the Big Club and the DC political influencers, just as the Club prepares the landscape for Joe Biden.
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Biden will have access to unlimited financial support from the multinational Wall Street community. However, Biden’s weakness in 2020 is the same as Jeb’s weakness in 2016, a lack of grassroots support. That’s why Bernie and Beto are currently data-mining the electorate to gather up the contact info (data harvesting) for later Club deployment.
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https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2019/03/21/motive-synergy-fox-news-hires-joe-biden-former-chief-of-staff/#more-161506
Joe can have both eyes fill up with blood, and it was for the most part IGNORED by the liberal media. Half the time Joe can’t remember where he is and he makes up stories that are never challenged by liberals.
4 years ago
Reply to
felix1999
“Demise of Trump”= baloney. Rasmussen is the only reliable pollster, and he shows no real changes today. Trump is still more popular than Obama was at this point. Mostly, people are suffering, and they want relief. But in the face of that, they are incredibly loyal to Trump.
4 years ago
Trump and helpers presented a brilliant plan today, and I think it will work. One key point is that if we squeeze the economy too much, it will wreak the resupply systems needed for health care. And mortalities will rise because of that. So although zero mortalities is now impossible, a trade-off can be reached between locking down and opening up, that minimizes the mortalities. And as the epidemic passes, more opening will be possible.
4 years ago
Reply to
DemocracyRules
Can you believe this? These globalists just won’t stop pushing globalism. The fatal flaws of globalism are obvious! Will they be defending WHO and CHINA next?
George W. Bush Center: More Globalization Is the Answer to Coronavirus Crisis
By John Binder 4/16/20
Executives with the George W. Bush Presidential Center say more globalization of the American economy is the answer to the Chinese coronavirus crisis, not the problem.
In an op-ed published in Real Clear World, Managing Director of the George W. Bush Institute-SMU Economic Growth Initiative Matthew Rooney writes that the policies of free trade, mass immigration, and globalization must be embraced further by the U.S. after the crisis is over.
Economic nationalism, Rooney writes, must be rejected:
“As COVID-19 spreads and stresses healthcare infrastructure around the world, governments and civil society are racing to slow the pandemic by distancing people from one another. Meanwhile, in the United States and in other developed countries, there is a rising chorus of voices who argue that we must deglobalize, dismantle international supply chains, reduce international trade and travel, and close our borders to the world.”
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“The danger of a pandemic did not arise because of globalization. Pandemics have appeared periodically throughout history. Deglobalizing will not protect us from pandemics in the future. On the contrary, we will ultimately come to see that global cooperation is key to responding successfully to pandemics.”
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Globalization of the American economy — forged by the Bush presidencies, Bill Clinton, and Barack Obama — has had a crippling impact on working- and middle-class Americans for decades and has been exacerbated during the coronavirus crisis.
(We also see that outsourcing KEY industries has also been dangerous, yet they want MORE of it. No thanks. Endless useless wars and Bush Sr. NWO have been a disaster.)
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https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/04/16/george-w-bush-center-globalization-answer-coronavirus-crisis/
4 years ago
Reply to
felix1999
Yes, most tyrants yearn for world conquest, and globalism is just another form of tyrant culture.
4 years ago
Reply to
VTS
“As an ultimate objective, ‘peace’ simply means communist world control.”
– Lenin
4 years ago
Reply to
DemocracyRules
They are all desperate to own the world and would murder millions to reach their goal, if they can not convert them, yet they project it on Jews, but all Jews want is their tiny ansestral land back to live there and the Temple in Jerusalem where they could serve God Almighty in peace.
4 years ago
Reply to
DemocracyRules
Exactly. Not only those two. When few rabbis came to Trotsky to ask for help during brutal Russian civil war, he acted like he had nothing in common with them. It is sad that such Jews like Bernie Sanders, George Soros and many others care less about Israel, or the rest of their fellow Jews.
4 years ago
Reply to
VTS
Yes, ‘capo’ Jews are dangerous. But there are lots of ‘capo’ Christians too, who betray their own people.
4 years ago
Reply to
felix1999
Stop referring to globalization which is just a euphemism for the Sinicization of our nation and others. The ChiComs have these turd traitors in their pocket. The ChiComs deliberately created and released the CCP Virus for the purpose of covering up their collapsing economy and destroying ours and these traitors are their propaganda agents. Patriots need to seek out and annihilate these turds. They are simply the present-day equivalents of Tokyo Rose only far better paid, highly sophisticated, embedded deeply within our power structure, far more dangerous,and, unfortunately, far more effective.
4 years ago
China is expecting the US dollar to go down so expect China to go on a buying spree to gobble up more critical infrastructure of other countries. Countries hurt by the virus will need the money and China knows it.
4 years ago
Reply to
felix1999
NZZ-News ( a swiss newspaper, in my opinion a good one )
Chinas economy is shrinking first time since decades ( 1st quater -6,8%) and the future dont look good.
This crises have the western world shown that we must bring back our factories.
Donald J. Trump was right again.
Times are changing – more and more people get their eyes open, more and more anti MSM media are coming out.
4 years ago
Just think, Trump builds our economy to previously unknown heights, it gets knocked down a peg thanks to China, and in spite of the devious commiecrats is about to make it ascendant once more, do you sense a landslide in November? I do.
Trump 2020!
4 years ago
Reply to
Drew the Infidel
I am voting for Trump no matter what they say or do. I hope that all his supporters will do the same.
4 years ago
Reply to
VTS
Even if you flip a coin to decide, you come out a winner. Heads I win, tails you lose.
