State governors are getting more power from Trump, while fearing they lack the federal tools needed to fight the coronavirus crisis
The Trump White House is doubling down on a strategy to govern the coronavirus pandemic: pushing authority and responsibility for the response onto the states.
“For all of the good work I see governors doing, only the president has the intelligence and resources to tip the shores, the power to invoke the Defense Production Act and control over whether there are adequate stockpiles for the threats of our day and the FEMA reserves,” O’Malley added. White House aides insist no state will run out of ventilators in the next 72 hours — even as front-line health workers in New York City relay harrowing stories of overwhelmed emergency rooms, people dying alone and dire shortages of protective gear like masks and gowns.
“Looking at it from a distance, there is not a clear path as to how governors get medications and support services and where the federal government is actually acting,” said former Republican Gov. Judd Gregg of New Hampshire. “They are not communicating it as to how you get the masks, how you get the ventilators. It appears to be communicated in an ad hoc manner rather than a publicly orchestrated manner. Communication has not been great to governors on where the rubber hits the road.
“That’s the first I’ve heard the warehouse was in New Jersey, funny way of delivering it to New York,” Cuomo said on CNN on Friday. “The ventilators are in a stockpile. They are not yet deployed because we do not need them yet,” he added, warning that he’s expecting the outbreak to peak in three weeks and that 30,000 total ventilators will be needed.
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