Questioned about Trump's controversial new directives for pandemic relief, top aides offer contradictory, sometimes tangled responses.
As the United States surpassed 5 million confirmed coronavirus cases, President Trump’s senior aides on Sunday defended his handling of intertwined economic and public health crises, declaring that Democrats would bear the blame for millions of Americans’ financial distress if lawmakers challenged Trump’sHouse Speaker Nancy Pelosi denounced the orders unveiled by Trump on Saturday at his New Jersey golf resort as “meager, weak and unconstitutional.
“We will probably find that out today and tomorrow as we make our canvass — we have been in touch with them,” he said on CNN’s “State of the Union.” Trump’s economic advisor, Peter Navarro, appearing on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” brushed aside questions raised by Democrats and even some Republicans about the legality of the president’s directives. Nebraska GOP Sen. Ben Sasse called the executive actions “unconstitutional slop.”“I’m confident that every single one of these orders, which cleared through the Office of Legal Counsel, will stand up,” Navarro said.
But experts from outside the administration cast the fight against the coronavirus in a far bleaker light.
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