President Donald Trump’s administration has faced mounting criticism over its response to the coronavirus outbreak, but that isn’t prompting more action from members of Trump’s Cabinet, according to NBC News.
Labor Secretary Eugene Scalia had to defend the Occupational Safety and Health Administration against complaints over poor workplace safety during the crisis, especially from frontline workers and employees at meatpacking facilities. Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue faces accusations that he has been dragging his feet on releasing federal funding to farmers who are struggling, and Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross has been largely silent during the worst economic crisis in decades.
NBC notes that “All told, Cabinet secretaries have made a handful of appearances at the daily White House task force briefings to inform Americans about what their departments are doing to help. But they continue to gut or enforce rules that critics argue are unrelated to the pandemic and are championed by conservatives.”
Andrew Card, former White House chief of staff to President George W. Bush, told NBC that after the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, Bush held a Cabinet meeting “with phenomenal specificity,” to coordinate a response from the “whole of government.”
He added, “It was a tour de force of knowledge of what the work of governing was while we were at war. There were no responsibilities taken away. There were just things added.”
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