Pelosi warns Trump not to reopen country too soon
The speaker also signals the House may not come back in session this month.
By HEATHER CAYGLE and JOHN BRESNAHAN
04/09/2020 10:11 PM EDT
Speaker Nancy Pelosi signaled Thursday that the House is unlikely to return to session later this month, her clearest indication yet that Congress — like the rest of the country — could remain shuttered for weeks or even longer as the coronavirus crisis continues.
In a half-hour interview, Pelosi issued a stark warning to President Donald Trump, urging him not to prematurely rush to reopen major segments of the country before the coronavirus is under control, which she said could further send the U.S. economy into a tailspin.
“Nobody can really tell you that and I would never venture a guess. I certainly don’t think we should do it sooner than we should,” Pelosi said when asked if she still planned to bring the House back on April 20, which is the current target date.
“This has taken an acceleration from when we started this…Little did we know then that at this point, we’d be further confined.”
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tRump pressures red state governors to loosen restrictions on businesses, which they will almost certainly will do. Many companies will thereafter pressure employees to return to work without due regard for safety or face firing. Companies of all sorts will have to remodel their process methods to even function for any amount of time.
Red state companies will start cut-throat wars of competition just to stay open and increasing the temptation to increase health risks. Red states will then see a secondary rise in infections.
Thereafter, pressure will mount on blue states to ease restrictions even when it's not safe.
That scenario will work only on a limited basis because red states need blue state participation in the supply chains. Because of that, I don't think our nation can return to anything resembling normalcy until California and New York in particular, are back on their feet.
Regardless, it's going to be a brutal reboot.
Our states are not islands.......
