Trump Amps Up Pressure to Reopen Schools, Attacks CDC Guidelines
- President says he may try to cut funding if schools don’t open
- Trump also publicly disagreed with the FDA this week on virus
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President Donald Trump intensified his pressure campaign to reopen schools, attacking the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention over guidelines he said were too onerous, costly and impractical.
Trump, in tweets Wednesday, said he’d be meeting with the CDC about the guidance, and threatened to withhold federal funding to schools that didn’t fully reopen, as he urged schools to begin again this fall with in-person classes despite a resurgence of coronavirus cases.