Governors are angry at Trump over coronavirus. That's ominous.

[Dennis Donovan]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/03/16/governors-are-angry-trump-over-coronavirus-thats-ominous/


New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham, right, announces a public health emergency in response to covid-19. (Morgan Lee/AP)

By Greg Sargent
Opinion writer

March 16, 2020 at 5:30 p.m. EDT

It’s being widely reported that President Trump angered some of the nation’s governors by telling them on a private call that they should not wait for the federal government’s help in trying to fill increasing demand for respirators for people diagnosed with the coronavirus.

I’ve learned a bit more about this call, and it may have been worse than what has been reported.

One of the governors — Michelle Lujan Grisham of New Mexico — laid into Trump in a sharp, pointed and passionate manner, her communications director, Tripp Stelnicki, told me.

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The good news is that Lujan Grisham got results — or, at least, a promise of more cooperation. According to Stelnicki, Vice President Pence has since called Lujan Grisham and pledged to work with her to supply what she needs to handle the state’s response.

This is ominous, because it underscores the lengths to which governors will have to go to get the help they need from the federal government — with items that should arguably be no-brainers already at this point in the process.

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[dewsgirl]

1. Scary AF.😳

[dweller]

2. this what needs to be said and done

state leaders of all stripes and office need to stand up and speak up loud and clear to fatnixon and his minions to get their shit together
good on Grisham! 👍🏻

✌🏼

[Stuart G]

3. K and R

[Hermit-The-Prog]

4. The GOP disease has rotted a bunch of our federal government.

We need to disinfect it in November.

[Captain Zero]

5. Gov Grisham is my darKhorse long shot VP CANDIDATE

For the Dems. Wonder if that is why Pence is so responsive to her?

[Quemado]

6. Way to go Governor!