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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsGovernors are angry at Trump over coronavirus. That's ominous.
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
Its being widely reported that President Trump angered some of the nations governors by telling them on a private call that they should not wait for the federal governments help in trying to fill increasing demand for respirators for people diagnosed with the coronavirus.
Ive 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.
The latest updates on the coronavirus
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 states 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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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
Its being widely reported that President Trump angered some of the nations governors by telling them on a private call that they should not wait for the federal governments help in trying to fill increasing demand for respirators for people diagnosed with the coronavirus.
Ive 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.
The latest updates on the coronavirus
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 states 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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Governors are angry at Trump over coronavirus. That's ominous. (Original Post)
Dennis Donovan
Mar 2020
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dewsgirl
(14,961 posts)1. Scary AF.😳
dweller
(23,661 posts)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
(38,445 posts)3. K and R
Hermit-The-Prog
(33,414 posts)4. The GOP disease has rotted a bunch of our federal government.
We need to disinfect it in November.
Captain Zero
(6,823 posts)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
(1,262 posts)6. Way to go Governor!