The Whitehouse “15 days to slow the spread” recomendations gave governors across the nation a green light to shut down their states as each saw fit. It was meant to “flatten the curve” and they recommended extensions beyond Easter if you recall. Now they want us shut down indefinitely for “testing” purposes. Yes the governors have authority over their states but with the White house blowing the shut down horn every afternoon it makes it very difficult to buck the feds, especially when governors are thrown under the bus by their president on national television. This is not America. This is China or the Soviet Union in it’s hey day. It needs to end.
“It needs to end.”
Yes it does. But Trump can’t do it as he is not in conrol of the states, and never has been. He gave them the green light because he never had control of the red one or the green one. He can make recommendations, but he can’t enforce them and never tried.
A good article for this is:
https://www.whitehouse.gov/articles/15-days-slow-spread/
The term recommendations was used a few times, but ordering was never used except to free up $42 billion in funds as that was the way to do it. He never ordered the shutdown of a state and by giving that “green light” said he would do what he could to support the governors in whatever action they took. And they did not do it the same way at the same time. If the president had done it, if he legally could, it would have happened simultaneously and been consistent, It wasn’t. He didn’t order it. The individual governors did. He did what he was legally bound to do.
rwood