NYC Mayor: If Trump doesn't act, 'people will die who could have lived otherwise'
Source: NBC News
Mayor de Blasio says the president should activate Defense Production Act for supplies and mobilize the military to help fight coronavirus pandemic.
WASHINGTON New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio sharply criticized President Donald Trump's response to the coronavirus pandemic Sunday, arguing that the federal government has not done enough to ramp up production of life-saving medical supplies like masks and ventilators and asking the president to deploy the military across the country to help with the public-health crisis.
The president of the United States is from New York City and he will not lift a finger to help his hometown and I dont get it. I dont get it. Right now, I have asked repeatedly for the military to be mobilized, for the Defense Production Act to be used to its fullest to get us things like ventilators, so people can live who would die otherwise, de Blasio said Sunday on a special edition of NBCs Meet the Press.
If the president doesnt act, people will die who could have lived otherwise senior citizens, folks who are members of families.
Read more: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/meet-the-press/nyc-mayor-if-trump-doesn-t-act-people-will-die-n1166001
durablend
(7,455 posts)TheFourthMind
(343 posts)left-of-center2012
(34,195 posts)He'll do it when things get bad enough.
iluvtennis
(19,833 posts)sarge43
(28,940 posts)lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)Turd's immovable. Until we move him out.
sarge43
(28,940 posts)Have to remember there are still sane grown ups in the room.
IronLionZion
(45,380 posts)NNadir
(33,466 posts)ffr
(22,665 posts)FACT.
Don't get sick. If you do, only your state's limited resources will be made available to you. tRump and the GOP are the ultimate Death panel, choosing who lives and who dies.
Champp
(2,114 posts)As they lie, screw-off, and fail America.
LudwigPastorius
(9,099 posts)manufacture ventilators and personal protection equipment is fucking criminal.
I said it before, but we'd actually be better off if no one at all was in charge instead of Trump.
Hotler
(11,394 posts)rocktivity
(44,572 posts)Trump's not going to help any Democrat voting strongholds. Why do you think San Francisco and New York City are two of the virsus' biggest hotspots?
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djg21
(1,803 posts)We need to make it stick. It should be his legacy.