President Trump says governors “are going to do a great job of leading' their states when it comes to the decision on reopening the economy and battling COVID-19. “And if we’re unhappy with a state, we’re going to let them know that we’re unhappy.”
Trump said he would speak to all governors before announcing second 'council' or 'committee' on reopening country
President Donald Trump speaks during the daily briefing on the novel coronavirus in the Rose Garden of the White House on April 14, 2020, in Washington.MORE: Coronavirus updates: US Navy battles growing outbreak on hospital shipPresident Donald Trump opened Tuesday’s briefing in the White House Rose Garden by pointing to some U.S. counties that he said don’t have reported cases of COVID-19, appearing to lay the groundwork for reopening parts of the country.
People listen to President Donald Trump speak during the daily briefing on the novel coronavirus in the Rose Garden of the White House on April 14, 2020, in Washington.He then announced he was putting a hold on the U.S. funding for the World Health Organization, a move the president has signaled for weeks as he tries to shift blame for his response to the novel coronavirus pandemic.
"The scariest day of my life was about a month ago when, after a long day of meetings, my team told me that we were going to be needing 130,000 ventilators but we were short hundreds of thousands of ventilators," Trump said."This is the system we inherited. And we look at the states, the states were not prepared," he said.
President Donald Trump addresses the daily coronavirus task force briefing in the Rose Garden at the White House in Washington, April 14, 2020.Turning to news of reopening the president has promised, Trump said “the day will be very close” that some states will implement reopening, saying that plans are “close to being finalized" but indicating there will be an individual plan for each state.
“Actually, there are over 20 that are in extremely good shape, and we think we will be able to get them open fairly quickly, and then others will follow.”" Frankly, it will be at a time that will be earlier than the deadline we imposed, the end of April," Trump said."So, we think some of the governors will be in really good shape to open up even sooner than that."
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