With pressure and threats, Trump pushes to fully reopen schools. Schools say: Not so fast.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Trump on Wednesday intensified his demand that schools fully reopen this fall, slamming the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, pressuring it to loosen guidance and threatening to cut funding for schools that do not open.

The CDC was already planning to issue new guidelines for schools in the coming days. But Vice President Pence on Wednesday explicitly tied the effort to Trump’s ire.

“The president said today we just don’t want the guidance to be too tough,” Pence told reporters. “And that’s the reason next week the CDC is going to be issuing a new set of tools.”

Pence, speaking at a briefing of the White House coronavirus task force, was replying to a question about the CDC’s recommendation that students be kept six feet apart to prevent the spread of the novel coronavirus.

School officials across the country have concluded they cannot fully reopen while following that guidance, because classrooms are too small to accommodate all students with the recommended distancing.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/with-pressure-and-threats-trump-pushes-to-fully-reopen-schools-schools-say-not-so-fast/ar-BB16v7M8?ocid=NL_ENUS_D1_20200709_7_3

[Budi]

1. Does Trump even have the authority to order schools to open?

I thought it was a State/District matter.

Likewise, wouldn't a funding issue like the one he's threatening be a matter for Congress.

I'v herad a variety of opinions so just asking here.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

2. No he doesn't have authority

But he's threatening to withhold federal money from schools that do not comply.

[Budi]

4. Does he have that authority ?

I read that only Congress can defund or fund.

He's so evil

[Newest Reality]

3. Which translates simply into:

We could give a damn about the students and teachers themselves.

People who do not see that, don't care about them either, IMHO. They should know we know that.

Not caring about the health and safety of people involved is revealing and certainly contrary to our values and our democracy.

Considering how they are now using a populist rhetoric to paint he left as the ominous ENEMY, the actions here speak, blare, scream louder then the words.

[Budi]

5. Yes that is exactly correct.

He serves himself at the trough 1st & last.

No one else is at the trough but him.