It’s more than just tweets. President Trump is reportedly planning a strategy to slowly release separate tiers of workers out of quarantine. Per Axios, the elderly and immunocompromised would still be required to remain in isolation, but some workers could return to their normal work routines.
Contrary to the partisan hand-wringing over Trump’s obvious restlessness with the national shutdown, Trump’s developing back-to-work plan ought to instill confidence in the public. Trump has only doubled down on his demand that Congress authorize immediate cash relief to consumers, so it’s not as though his willingness to strategize about what comes next signals defeat. If anything, it’s practically necessary, positioning us to be far more prepared for the secondary stage of the coronavirus than we were for the initial outbreak, and it’s politically expedient, a warning sign to Democrats holding the crisis relief bill as a partisan hostage.
