White House Pushes CDC To Water Down Its Own Reopening Guidance
The Trump White House was caught leaning on the CDC to revise reopening guidance that public-health staff had drafted to help states reopen more safely. The clash landed on a day when the administration was still selling “opening up” as a political slogan, even as its own experts were warning that the country was nowhere near a clean exit. That mismatch made the policy fight look less like coordination and more like pressure from the political shop to soften the science. The result was another credibility hit for a White House that kept demanding happy-talk from agencies built to deliver warnings.
First recorded May 7, 2020·Meaningfully updated May 7, 2020
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White House Pushes CDC To Water Down Its Own Reopening Guidance
The Trump White House was caught leaning on the CDC to revise reopening guidance that public-health staff had drafted to help states reopen more safely. The clash landed on a day when the administration was still selling “opening up” as a political slogan, even as its own experts were warning that the country was nowhere near a clean exit. That mismatch made the policy fight look less like coordination and more like pressure from the political shop to soften the science. The result was another …
The Trump White House was caught leaning on the CDC to revise reopening guidance that public-health staff had drafted to help states reopen more safely. The clash landed on a day when the administration was still selling “opening up” as a political slogan, even as its own experts were warning that the country was nowhere near a clean exit. That mismatch made the policy fight look less like coordination and more like…
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