Rep. Liz Cheney publicly contradicted President Trump’s edict that he has the unilateral authority to reopen the country as he sees fit.

Trump, at Monday’s White House press briefing, said that the president’s “authority is total” when it comes to reopening the country after the coronavirus pandemic. His comments, which reiterated tweets he sent earlier in the day, came after governors in the Northeast and West Coast agreed to work collaboratively to reopen school systems and economies in their regions.