GOP Governor Larry Hogan Says Trump Should Listen to the Scientists
Hogan, who is serving his second term as Maryland’s governor, is a rare specimen in American politics today: a high-profile Republican who is not afraid to criticize or rebuke President Trump and his administration. When Trump vowed to reopen the country by Easter, Hogan said that doing so would be “very harmful” and that Maryland “would obviously not do that.” In late March, he called Trump’s claim that testing was widely available “just not true.
All of the governors, really, out of necessity we’ve stepped up and been on the front lines of this crisis and dealt with things that I don’t think any of us ever imagined having to deal with. For me, not only as the governor of Maryland, but as the chairman of the National Governors Association, and trying to deal with this crisis and work with my colleagues all across the country, we’re dealing with things we never, ever imagined that governors would have to deal with.
There is no right or wrong answer and everybody’s just grappling with “How do you try to do both those things?” Put people back to work, not have our economy like the Great Depression, and how do you keep people from dying? It’s a terrible choice. You have been one of the few members of your political party to at times I feel like gently, constructively, try to nudge our president and the administration maybe in a more sort of factual direction. You had an appearance on Face the Nation; you’ve made some comments before. Why did you feel the need to do that?
And then lastly, they have done some things which have been very helpful, both the administration and the Congress with respect to stimulating the economy, but we still need more help. And there’s a need for another, fourth stimulus package, particularly that provides some assistance to the state and local governments that are on the front lines and our services are more in demand than ever.
But the hospital systems were not ready, the federal government wasn’t ready, the states weren’t ready, and everybody should have been. I think we have to be prepared next time, and it may be the next wave of this [virus]. It may not even be waiting until the next one. But we’ve got to build resilience, and we’ve got to be able to deal with this at the federal level.
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