The governors of several states hit hardest by the coronavirus pandemic defiantly proclaimed dominion over their own affairs Tuesday, pushing back against President Trump’s declaration of “total” power as he seeks to revive the cratering American economy
The president mocked those arrangements Tuesday, comparing the situation to the 1962 film “Mutiny on the Bounty,” which he revealed “was one of my all time favorite movies.”
But the president also received some welcome news from the West Coast, where two Democratic governors — California’s Gavin Newsom and Oregon’s Kate Brown — unveiled a series of public health benchmarks they would apply to lift their states’ social-distancing measures. Brown had rolled out a similar collection of benchmarks earlier Tuesday, warning that a lack of caution among government officials could “backfire” and “lead to a spike in cases.”
In another new shift, the president also placed blame for a lack of widespread testing on local authorities after nearly a month of insisting that the U.S. was running a model testing operation.
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