{"id":698,"date":"2020-04-13T19:10:25","date_gmt":"2020-04-13T23:10:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/politicalbourbon.com\/en\/?p=698"},"modified":"2020-04-15T16:38:06","modified_gmt":"2020-04-15T20:38:06","slug":"state-governors-have-authority-to-decide-when-to-open-their-state-for-business-despite-what-trump-thinks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/politicalbourbon.com\/en\/2020\/04\/13\/state-governors-have-authority-to-decide-when-to-open-their-state-for-business-despite-what-trump-thinks\/","title":{"rendered":"State Governors Have Authority to Decide When to Open Their State for Business Despite What Trump Thinks"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>President Donald Trump may be in the White House\nCriticizing Governors on their handling of slowing the spread of COVID-19 but the\none thing he cannot do is force States to ease restrictions imposed during this\npandemic and open back up for business sooner than they choose. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Under our constitutional system, states have the\npower and responsibility for maintaining public order and safety. As we have\nseen since the COVID-19 outbreak began, decisions about limiting social\ninteractions by ordering people to shelter in place, closing businesses and\nshutting schools are being made by governors and local officials. The\nguidelines provide by Trump and his administration are voluntary, and they\nunderscore the limits on Trump\u2019s powers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Governors on both sides of the fence have shared\nthat they are as eager as the president to reopen the country for business. However,\nmany Governors refuse to hurry residents back to work until health risks are\nunder control and widespread testing is available to help drive the decision on\nwhen it is safe to open back up for business. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large td-caption-align-https:\/\/politicalbourbon.com\/en\/file\/2020\/04\/bipartisanship.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"531\" src=\"https:\/\/politicalbourbon.com\/en\/file\/2020\/04\/bipartisanship-1024x531.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-700\" srcset=\"https:\/\/politicalbourbon.com\/en\/file\/2020\/04\/bipartisanship-1024x531.png 1024w, https:\/\/politicalbourbon.com\/en\/file\/2020\/04\/bipartisanship-300x156.png 300w, https:\/\/politicalbourbon.com\/en\/file\/2020\/04\/bipartisanship-768x398.png 768w, https:\/\/politicalbourbon.com\/en\/file\/2020\/04\/bipartisanship-1536x797.png 1536w, https:\/\/politicalbourbon.com\/en\/file\/2020\/04\/bipartisanship-696x361.png 696w, https:\/\/politicalbourbon.com\/en\/file\/2020\/04\/bipartisanship-1068x554.png 1068w, https:\/\/politicalbourbon.com\/en\/file\/2020\/04\/bipartisanship-810x420.png 810w, https:\/\/politicalbourbon.com\/en\/file\/2020\/04\/bipartisanship.png 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Presidential guidelines limiting social\ninteraction are in place until the end of this month, but in many places, state\nand local restrictions are expected to extend well into May and beyond.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Governors have made clear in recent days that\nthey will make decisions for their states driven by data that show whether\nefforts to contain the virus are working. Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine, a Republican,\nwho was one of the first governors to take aggressive action, on Saturday\nrefused to offer a timeline for reopening his state. \u201cWe\u2019re not going to flip a\nswitch and everything\u2019s going to get back to normal until we get a vaccine,\nuntil we get a way to prevent this,\u201d DeWine said on MSNBC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Donald Trump may be in the White House Criticizing Governors on their handling of slowing the spread of COVID-19 but the one thing he cannot do is force States to ease restrictions imposed during this pandemic and open back up for business sooner than they choose. Under our constitutional system, states have the power [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":699,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[193,153,196,192,191,194,99,195],"class_list":{"0":"post-698","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-politics","8":"tag-constitutional-system","9":"tag-covid-19","10":"tag-presidential-guidlines","11":"tag-state-control","12":"tag-state-governors","13":"tag-testing","14":"tag-trump","15":"tag-vaccine"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/politicalbourbon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/politicalbourbon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/politicalbourbon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/politicalbourbon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/politicalbourbon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/politicalbourbon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/politicalbourbon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/politicalbourbon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/politicalbourbon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/politicalbourbon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}