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Whats up with that?
RandySF
(58,797 posts)ProfessorGAC
(65,010 posts)Just a bit ago on CNN. Of course,anything they do what make good sense.
SoonerPride
(12,286 posts)He wants to watch TV, tweet, golf, and go to rallies. That's all.
brokephibroke
(1,883 posts)The virus is gone.
CatMor
(6,212 posts)he thinks he can just wish the pandemic away. It is the way a child thinks.
spanone
(135,830 posts)Arkansas Granny
(31,515 posts)Trump administration officials are telling members and staff of the coronavirus task force that the White House plans to wind down the operation in coming weeks despite growing evidence that the crisis is raging on, Maggie Haberman reports.
It is not clear whether any other group might replace the task force. But its gradual demise, which officials said might never be formally announced, would only intensify the questions about whether the administration is adequately organized to address the complex, life-and-death decisions related to the virus and giving adequate voice to scientists and public health experts in making policy.
While the task forces advice has sometimes been swept aside by Mr. Trump and its recommendations for criteria on reopening for business defied by a number of states, it has served as the closest thing the White House has for running a centralized response to the pandemic.
A top adviser to Vice President Mike Pence who has helped oversee the task force, Olivia Troye, has told senior officials involved in the task force to expect the group to wind down within weeks, a notice echoed by other top White House officials. While the task force met Tuesday at the White House, Mondays meeting was canceled, and a Saturday session, a staple of recent months, was never held.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/05/us/coronavirus-updates.html?smid=tw-nytimes&smtyp=cur#link-717676f7
StTimofEdenRoc
(445 posts)Zoonart
(11,860 posts)The truth is coming for them.
Stallion
(6,474 posts)Mike 03
(16,616 posts)how could the Task Force stay together? I wonder if it's breaking up behind the scenes due to people resigning and Trump is trying to save face by announcing that he's disbanding it.
All the doctors on the Task Force have to be pulling their hair out, because Trump isn't doing anything they advise him to do. So it couldn't last anyway, IMO.