White House mulls guidelines on reopening economy as COVID-19 cases exceed 580,000
U.S. President Donald Trump said Monday his administration is close to completing a plan to open the economy, noting that he would have “total” authority to do that.
“We will soon finalize new and important guidelines to give governors the information they need to start safely opening their states,” Trump told reporters at a White House briefing.
“We want to have our country open, we want to return to normal life. Our country will reopen successfully,” he said.
When asked whether he would have the power to open or close state economies, Trump said “the authority of the president of the United States having to do with the subject we are talking about is total.”
New York, New Jersey and four other northeastern states are setting up a working group to coordinate plans to restart the economy, while California, Washington and Oregon on the West Coast have said they would work on their guidelines together.
“The West Coast is guided by science. We issued stay at home orders early to keep the public healthy. We’ll open our economies with that same guiding principle,” California Governor Gavin Newsom said on Twitter Monday.
The White House is facing mounting pressure from business executives and advocacy groups to reopen the U.S. economy, as measures to slow the spread of the virus have led to growing economic fallout, with a staggering 16.8 million Americans filing initial jobless claims in a three-week period ending April 4.
According to Peterson Institute for International Economics (PIIE)’s semiannual Global Economics Prospects outlook released Friday, the U.S. output is expected to shrink by 8.0 percent in 2020, and unemployment rate will probably peak around 20 percent in the early summer.
“There’re economic risks in both directions,” Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said at the White House briefing.
When asked whether he would consult with health experts before opening up the economy, the U.S. president gave an affirmative answer.
As of Monday night, over 580,000 confirmed cases have been reported across the United States, with death toll surpassing 23,000, according to the Center for Systems Science and Engineering at Johns Hopkins University.
Deborah Birx, coronavirus response coordinator for the Task Force, told reporters at the briefing that “those curves are already starting to plateau.”
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President Trump of the United States of America, who, from his position, has been an embarrassment to his own Country and to the Global World, in the fragmented distorted approach, he has lead his country in the crisis of the novel coronavirus pandemic.
The perception of POWER – he believes are HIS – clearly evidenced thus far in the growing – MESS – that the United States of America finds it-self, is due to there out of date Constitution which MAJORLY impacts on the Dangerously Disjointed – total lack of uniformity being witnessed and undertaken by the Governors of the (50) fifty states that the United States of America consist.
Trump – does NOT have the – SOLE POWER – to switch the USA from STOP to Green/GO – having dismally FAILED to Stop it – close it down – isolate it, – his opinion, of his Power, thinking that he can start the country or there economy – rudderless as it was prior to the coronavirus pandemic, heading deeper into deeper and dangerous unchartered waters, that he can pontificate and say – back to work guys and dolls – business as usual, he is in – HOPEFULLY – for another scathing humiliating embarrassment of wrongful decision making of his Presidential Leadership failed portfolio.
America – dare not blame the rest of the world for your MESS.
You have what YOU elected and if ever, as a country, in an election year, that prior to November 2020, will undoubtedly see itself self imploding further into the abyss, the novel coronavirus pandemic – still evident/alive in a throughout there (50) fifty states, Trump, still in the oval office of the White House – THINK – seriously THINK – for YOU and your Country and the wider global world – THINK.
It’s time HONESTY – face the hard line FACTS – which to a degree has been evidenced for since the ending of the President Clinton period, that the – worth, importance and respect to the global world of America has dismally, by there incompetence and arrogance of attitude been SAVAGED.
There continuous on-going decaying dwindling – WORTH – that time, to heal and repair and RIGHT – is rapidly disappearing, that a population of 350 million people – there voting power, those of age and those of “correct papers” they are totally being FOOLS upon THEMSELVES – if they fail to get off there couches and VOTE.
America – will not be a better country for the time in office its 45th elected President – Donald J Trump, elected under there “highly questionable” political system, – REMAINS.
It is TIME for CHANGE – and if there is not CHANGE, continuing decline and demise in overall global reputation status and respect – will DOMINATE there Political Landscape and there Home Soil.