Biden: Trump bears 'responsibility' for not using his powers to protect health care workers

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In a short virtual address to a network of Pennsylvania’s labor unions on Tuesday, former Vice President Joe Biden said that although Donald Trump should not be blamed for the COVID-19 pandemic, the president “does bear responsibility” for not using his powers to get health care workers the protective equipment they need.

Mr. Biden, the frontrunner for the Democratic presidential nomination, alleged that Mr. Trump didn’t move quickly enough to respond to the coronavirus — a delay that he says has caused “real pain for so many Americans” and for workers who are on the frontlines without adequate supplies.

“Trump likes to say he’s a wartime president,” said Mr. Biden, appearing by video chat during the Pennsylvania AFL-CIO’s virtual 44th Constitutional Convention. “Well, he needs to step up and act like it.”

Specifically, Mr. Biden pointed to the Trump administration’s lack of action on imposing official occupational standards to protect workers from infectious diseases — standards that the Obama administration were working to adopt, but that were moved to a less urgent agenda by Mr. Trump’s administration and ultimately stalled, according to reporting in The Washington Post.




https://www.post-gazette.com/news/politics-nation/2020/04/07/Biden-Trump-responsibility-health-care-workers-protection-coronavirus/stories/202004070138?utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter_PittsburghPG

[SheltieLover]

1. K&R

[Cha]

2. Thank you, Joe Biden, for calling out trump on his

continual dereliction of duty to the point of negligent homicide!

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3. Count on Joe! Always above board, kind, generous and honest