Cuomo warns of constitutional crisis 'like you haven't seen in decades' if Trump tries to reopen New York
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Tuesday threatened to sue Donald Trump if the president orders states to lift their stay-at-home orders too early and rushes to reopen the economy before the COVID-19 pandemic safely subsides.
.@NYGovCuomo: “If [Trump] ordered me to reopen in a way that would endanger the public health of the people of my state, I wouldn’t do it.”https://t.co/dzwqZDXW2Y pic.twitter.com/0oSYdlops0At his daily press briefing Monday, Cuomo — who leads the state that has long been the epicenter of the coronavirus pandemic in the U.S. — said he was cautiously optimistic “the worst is over,” but warned that lifting restrictions too early could set back any progress already made.
After widespread evidence Trump and the federal government botched the U.S. response to the pandemic, governors have largely led the response, often in a collaborative way. That became more formalized Monday, when two groups of governors, in the Northeast and on the West Coast, announced joint task forces to develop a plan to reopen their states together.
Trump cited “numerous provisions” in the Constitution, claiming with no evidence whatsoever that “governors can’t do anything without the approval of the president of the United States.”
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