Democratic Governors Public Health Alliance Trump
- A group of Democratic state governors has launched a new alliance aimed at coordinating thier public health efforts.
- They're framing it as a way to share data, messages about threats, emergency preparedness and public health policy - and as a rebuke to President Donald Trump's governance,...
- "At a time when the federal government is telling the states, 'your on your own,' governors are banding together," Maryland Governor Wes Moore said in a statement.
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Democratic governors Launch Alliance to Coordinate Public Health Efforts
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A group of Democratic state governors has launched a new alliance aimed at coordinating thier public health efforts.
They’re framing it as a way to share data, messages about threats, emergency preparedness and public health policy – and as a rebuke to President Donald Trump’s governance, which they say isn’t doing it’s job in public health.
“At a time when the federal government is telling the states, ‘your on your own,’ governors are banding together,” Maryland Governor Wes Moore said in a statement.
The formation of the group touches off a new chapter in a partisan battle over public health measures that has been heightened by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s advisers declining to recommend Covid-19 vaccinations instead leaving the choice to the individual.
Andrew Nixon, a spokesperson for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, said in an email that democratic governors who imposed school closures and mask mandates, including for toddlers, at the height of the pandemic, are the ones who “destroyed public trust in public health.”
“The Trump Administration and Secretary Kennedy are rebuilding that trust by grounding every policy in rigorous evidence and Gold Standard Science – not the failed politics of the pandemic,” Nixon said.
The Initial Members Are All Democrats
The Governors Public Health Alliance bills itself as a “nonpartisan coordinating hub,” but the initial members are all Democrats – the governors of 14 states plus Guam.
Among them are governors of the most populous blue states,California