{"id":41354,"date":"2020-02-26T00:00:05","date_gmt":"2020-02-26T00:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=41354"},"modified":"2020-02-26T00:00:05","modified_gmt":"2020-02-26T00:00:05","slug":"trump-offering-too-little-to-fight-coronavirus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=41354","title":{"rendered":"Trump offering too little to fight coronavirus"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=MAGA%20%23coronavirus%20%23POTUS&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/BB10mSJX.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-41409\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/BB10mSJX-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/BB10mSJX-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/BB10mSJX-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/BB10mSJX.jpg 799w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not every day during the Donald Trump Era when you hear lawmakers from both parties express concern about how the president is handling a burgeoning international health crisis.<\/p>\n<p>Coronavirus, anyone?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/news\/politics\/lawmakers-raise-alarms-over-trump-coronavirus-response\/ar-BB10o9RN?li=BBnb7Kz\">Congressional Democrats and Republicans<\/a> are speaking from the same notes. They want Donald Trump to take a more proactive role in seeking some remedy to the outbreak of the virus that is now spreading through Europe as well as Asia and which, if it&#8217;s not contained, could do the same in the United States and the rest of North America.<\/p>\n<p>He is asking for $2.5 billion in supplemental budget funds. Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer calls the administration&#8217;s response an example of &#8220;towering and dangerous&#8221; incompetence. Then we have Republican U.S. Senate Appropriations Committee Chairman Richard Shelby calling the administration response lackluster.<\/p>\n<p>Trump said in India today that the disease has been &#8220;contained&#8221; in the United States. No, Mr. President. It isn&#8217;t <em>contained<\/em>. Granted, it hasn&#8217;t spread in the manner it has spread in other regions around the world. Contained? Not yet.<\/p>\n<p>I am not suggesting that the nation&#8217;s health-response team push the panic button. Or that we should invest in hazmat suits.<\/p>\n<p>We simply need some sense of urgency coming from the White House &#8230; and from the individual who runs the executive branch of the federal government.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=MAGA%20%23coronavirus%20%23POTUS&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s not every day during the Donald Trump Era when you hear lawmakers from both parties express concern about how the president is handling a burgeoning international health crisis. Coronavirus, anyone? Congressional Democrats and Republicans are speaking from the same notes. They want Donald Trump to take a more proactive role in seeking some remedy &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=41354\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Trump offering too little to fight coronavirus<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41354"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41354\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41410,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41354\/revisions\/41410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}