President Donald Trump signaled Tuesday that the coronavirus job force, a cadre of health and government officials supervising the U.S. response to COVID-19, might quickly dissolve.
Trump’s remarks follow a New York City Times report mentioning that Trump administration authorities have actually been telling members of the job force that the White House plans to wind down the operation in the coming weeks regardless of the coronavirus pandemic staying a significant threat to the U.S., the majority of which is still seeing a rise in brand-new infections.
When pressed by a reporter on why he believed now was a great time to scale back the effort, Trump responded, “Well, due to the fact that we can’t keep our country closed for the next 5 years.”
Though Trump has pushed for the economy to reopen as soon as possible, public health experts on the job force have actually urged a more cautious approach and warned that the virus will likely resurge if the U.S. relaxes social distancing guidelines prematurely.
However Trump, who’s currently scaled back his coronavirus news conferences and stopped app