The authority to require businesses to close in a public health crisis is what is a known as a 'police power,' and it is reserved by the Constitution to the states, not the federal government.
"I'm not going to put pressure on any governor to open," Trump said."I'm not going to say to Governor Cuomo, 'You have to open within seven days.'"earlier Tuesday on MSNBC's"Morning Joe" that Trump would create a"constitutional crisis" if he tried to override any of the governors.
Republican political analyst Susan Del Percio, a former Cuomo aide, said that while it's not uncommon for states to work together in such regional pacts in a crisis, she hadn't seen a group as large as the one created among Northeastern governors. :"Tell the Democrat Governors that 'Mutiny On The Bounty' was one of my all time favorite movies," referring to a decades-old film about a tyrannical ship captain whose crew leads a mutiny against him.
Trump said Cuomo"understands how we helped him," but he opted against further confrontation. The president has eyed reopening parts of the economy around the start of May, and his administration late last week announced that it's launching a task force to work toward that goal.
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