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Trump careened through a critical week in the coronavirus crisis
Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement When AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka was shown a draft last week of President Trump’s plan to reopen the economy, he worried it didn’t offer enough testing for the coronavirus to ensure that millions of Americans could safely return to work. “I’ve heard people say we have all the tests we need,” Trumka said. “That’s just not the case right now on the ground.”So after he was named to a presidential advisory group, Trumka planned to raise his concerns in a conference call. But with dozens dialed in, the head of the country’s largest...…Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement When AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka was shown a draft last week of President Trump’s plan to reopen the economy, he worried it didn’t offer enough testing for the coronavirus to ensure that millions of Americans could safely return to work. “I’ve heard people say we have all the tests we need,” Trumka said. “That’s just not the case right now on the ground.”So after he was named to a presidential advisory group, Trumka planned to raise his concerns in a conference call. But with dozens dialed in, the head of the country’s largest...WW…
Trump uses coronavirus crisis to push other policy priorities
Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement Even as the coronavirus crisis has brought most of the country to a screeching halt, President Trump has begun to turbocharge his administration’s efforts to slash business and other regulations, and to pursue other long-held policy goals, with consequences that are likely to outlive the pandemic.Labor groups, environmentalists, immigration activists and other critics say the White House is cynically using the nation’s medical emergency and economic devastation as political cover to undermine or overturn rules put in place long ago...…Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement Even as the coronavirus crisis has brought most of the country to a screeching halt, President Trump has begun to turbocharge his administration’s efforts to slash business and other regulations, and to pursue other long-held policy goals, with consequences that are likely to outlive the pandemic.Labor groups, environmentalists, immigration activists and other critics say the White House is cynically using the nation’s medical emergency and economic devastation as political cover to undermine or overturn rules put in place long ago...WW…
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