Pressured by President Trump to reopen the economy amid the coronavirus crisis, governors across the nation on Friday laid out varying paths.
Pressured by President Trump to reopen the economy, governors across the nation on Friday laid out varying paths as they tried to balance public health in the midst of the coronavirus crisis with the crushing financial pressures facing the nation’s workers.
"We have demonstrated that we can corral the coronavirus," Abbott said as he announced the creation of a"strike force" including medical experts, elected officials and business leaders to guide the effort to reopen his state's economy. Abbott made the remarks a day after the president laid out a three-phase plan for the nation to get back to work. Although the president on Thursday emphasized that the decision to reopen state economies was ultimately up to the governors, on Friday he took to Twitter to urge them to act.
“The situation we’re in now is unsustainable. People can’t stay in their homes for this length of time. You can’t keep the economy closed forever,” New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said during his daily briefing. But he warned that their margin of error was very narrow. “Operate too fast … in three days and we’ll be right back where started.”
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