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Showing Original Post only (View all)Trump signals an economic pivot on coronavirus shutdowns [View all]
https://www.axios.com/coronavirus-economy-recession-donald-trump-0b5ab109-1a5e-4397-b54b-5f17d802c029.html
President Trump and some of his senior officials are losing patience with the doctors orders.
The state of play: Amid dire predictions for jobs and the economy, the White House is beginning to send signals to business that there's light at the end of the tunnel that the squeeze from nationwide social distancing won't be endless.
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Why it matters: Taken together, Trumps tweet and Pence's comment supply the strongest public signals we've seen that the administration is looking for ways to get people out in the world again to fire up the economy perhaps much sooner than Dr. Fauci would like.
Trump is responding both to his own instincts and to messages that key outside allies have been sending for days.
He retweeted a number of those outside allies echoing similar stances on Monday morning.
Between the lines: Senior Trump officials, including the president himself, have only limited patience for keeping the economy shut down. They are watching stocks tumble and unemployment skyrocket.
Whats next: At the end of the 15-day period, there will likely be a serious clash between the public health experts who will almost certainly favor a longer period of nationwide social distancing and quarantining versus the president and his economic and political aides, who are anxious to restart the economy.
</snip>
President Trump and some of his senior officials are losing patience with the doctors orders.
The state of play: Amid dire predictions for jobs and the economy, the White House is beginning to send signals to business that there's light at the end of the tunnel that the squeeze from nationwide social distancing won't be endless.
<snip>
Why it matters: Taken together, Trumps tweet and Pence's comment supply the strongest public signals we've seen that the administration is looking for ways to get people out in the world again to fire up the economy perhaps much sooner than Dr. Fauci would like.
Trump is responding both to his own instincts and to messages that key outside allies have been sending for days.
He retweeted a number of those outside allies echoing similar stances on Monday morning.
Between the lines: Senior Trump officials, including the president himself, have only limited patience for keeping the economy shut down. They are watching stocks tumble and unemployment skyrocket.
Whats next: At the end of the 15-day period, there will likely be a serious clash between the public health experts who will almost certainly favor a longer period of nationwide social distancing and quarantining versus the president and his economic and political aides, who are anxious to restart the economy.
</snip>
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Jonathan Swan ✔@jonathanvswan
Whats next: At the end of the 15-day shutdown period, there will likely be a serious clash between the public health experts versus the president and his economic and political aides, who are anxious to restart the economy.
https://www.axios.com/coronavirus-economy-recession-donald-trump-0b5ab109-1a5e-4397-b54b-5f17d802c029.html
As the economy falters, Trump loses patience with doctors' orders on coronavirus
The administration wants business to know that there's light at the end of the tunnel.
8:10 AM - Mar 23, 2020
He will continue to FUCK this up until he's removed or drops dead of COVID.
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What he will say about it will be blame state and city governments for unemployment, recession,
denem
Mar 2020
#49
I expect at the end of the 15-day period, Trump will go on national TV and tell everyone
no_hypocrisy
Mar 2020
#4
ANY business that goes against the doctors and scientists on this is finished...forever.
Moostache
Mar 2020
#8
What does he think is going to happen to the economy when people go back out
smirkymonkey
Mar 2020
#10
He's getting ready to shift the blame to the governors for the stay-at-home orders
dalton99a
Mar 2020
#12
A beautiful and perfect demise befitting a malignant, sadistic, evil piece of garbage
dalton99a
Mar 2020
#22
Seriously? This is like responding to the bombing of Pearl Harbor by passing the Marshall Plan.
Hugin
Mar 2020
#20
In 1-2 weeks, every hospital in the country will be out of icu beds and more importantly, respirator
getagrip_already
Mar 2020
#30
All of the RW'ers must be getting their programming from Fox: go to work, act normal
ffr
Mar 2020
#31
If the spread continues to go unchecked, it will do just as much damage as the shutdowns are
Dopers_Greed
Mar 2020
#43
I certainly think it's the wrong move, but we are on the cusp of an economic collapse
Victor_c3
Mar 2020
#47
Wait...you mean the house of cards economy, built on the backs of labor is soft?
Moostache
Mar 2020
#56
+1, this is my thought case the DOW was heading to 17 ... that's another bottom point.
uponit7771
Mar 2020
#53
Call me naive, but Trump's plan to relax restrictions is not going to happen.
Cousin Dupree
Mar 2020
#52