Sherrod Brown blasts Trump but praises Republican governor's response to coronavirus
Sen. Sherrod Brown, an Ohio Democrat, is praising his state’s Republican governor’s response to the coronavirus pandemic, while at the same criticizing President Trump’s “incompetent” handling of the situation.
By contrast, Trump “has no idea how these government agencies work, he has no idea how to scale up what we need to do, he doesn’t get the expertise around him,” according to Brown. Brown has few good things to say about Trump’s handling of the crisis, specifically his refusal or inability to marshal the full resources of the federal government when they are needed most. Although Trump frequently compares the struggle against the virus to a war, Brown says the country should re-learn the lessons of World War II, when the government stepped in to ensure that private industry manufactured everything the nation needed to win.
Trump finally invoked the DPA last week in a bid to stop companies from exporting and hoarding needed medical equipment, although critics like Brown say that the president’s delay in using the DPA cost lives. Brown said that the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, an advocacy group that represents large corporations, was also at fault because it had “lobbied” Trump against using the DPA.
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