House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Sunday said that a federal mandate on wearing masks is “long overdue.”
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., conducts a news conference in the Capitol Visitor Center on Friday, June 26, 2020.on Sunday said that a federal mandate on wearing masks is "long overdue," as state governors call for a consistent national message on the issue amid a surge in coronavirus cases across the nation.
"The president should be an example. Real men wear masks, be an example to the country, wear a mask," Pelosi said in an interview on ABC's "This Week." "It's not about protecting yourself, it's about protecting others."on Friday, a record breaking spike that brought the nation's total to more than 2.5 million cases, according to data from Johns Hopkins University.
Asked if the president and the vice president should be doing more to set an example on the wearing of masks, Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson, a Republican, said Sunday that there should be a "consistent national message" to wear masks. Democratic nominee Joe Biden has said that if elected he would require the use of masks in public. The CDC currently recommends that people wear face coverings in public where social distancing is hard to maintain, and some states and local communities require masks.
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