President Donald Trump’s administration shelved the Center for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) guidelines advising state and local leaders on how to reopen the economy amid the COVID-19 outbreak.
The document, titled “Guidance for Implementing the Opening Up America Again Framework,” was slated to be released on May 1. In it, the CDC lays out detailed recommendations on safely reopening churches, schools, restaurants and other establishments that hold many people at once.
But according to the Associated Press, the administration told CDC scientists that the guide “would never see the light of day.”
An unnamed source told the AP that White House officials see such guidance as a “slippery slope” given that COVID-19 does not impact every area of the U.S. equally.
The report reveals yet another example of the administration’s lack of transparency in its response to the outbreak. President Donald Trump refuses to let members of his COVID-19 task force testify in front of Congress without permission from White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows.
Trump blocked Dr. Anthony Fauci, a prominent official on the task force, from attending a House hearing scheduled for last week because the Democratic-controlled chamber is made up of “a bunch of Trump haters,” according to the President.
Read the CDC’s guide below:
Trump is now out of dictator training and has begun working on his internship.
Trump will come up with is own plan! Stay tuned! It’ll be the greatest plan ever! He’ll tweet it! Bigly.
Yeah, who wants a detailed plan? You know, there are businesses where the owner knows every single person that works for them and exactly what is happening with their business. And they have detailed plans for stuff like this.
Trump knows nobody that works for him, as he has told us over and over, but this huge nation with 350 million people, we don’t need no stinkin plans!
We can see where this is headed. The “experts” keep contradicting Dear Leader and they must be silenced. In the middle of a deadly pandemic. And they will do their level best to keep the resulting deaths a secret, too.
Senate republicans own every bit of this.
Just more of those pesky know-something experts trying to fool the people with logic and science-backed information.
Trump’s continued reliance on his “really good brain” is no longer amusing; it’s outright delusional.