Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms (D) criticized President Trump
Donald John TrumpRead: Attorney General William Barr’s written testimony before the Barr House Judiciary Committee hoped to blame Democrats for efforts to ‘discredit him’ at the next hearing of 22 people facing federal charges in connection with the Portland protests. PLUSThe drive for schools to reopen in the fall amid growing cases of coronavirus, both as a legislator and as a mother.
“As a mother of four, I don’t trust this president with their lives,” Bottoms said Monday in a call to reporters.
Bottoms said his family is an “excellent example” of what can happen when children are sent back to “insecure classrooms.” One of their four children was infected with COVID-19 but was asymptomatic.
“As we contemplate sending our children back to school, this is what our teachers, our tutors, our bus drivers, and many others in schools will face: asymptomatic children who can unintentionally infect those who do not have the ability to avoid this. virus, ”said Bottoms.
Bottoms and her husband also tested positive for COVID-19. Bottoms has said she did not experience any symptoms, but she said Monday that it was “astonishing” to see her husband thrown to his knees by the virus.
“This is what our workers in our schools will face when we send our children to schools this fall,” added Bottoms.
Bottoms was one of two Democrats who spoke to journalists in Monday’s call with the chairman of the Democratic National Committee (DNC) Tom perez
Thomas Edward Perez Clinton’s Top Five Vice Presidential Elections Government Social Programs: Winning Hope Over Evidence of Labor ‘Wasteful Spending and Mismanagement’ in Workers’ Comp MORE. Rep. Katie Porter (Democrat of California) also criticized Trump’s drive, as a legislator and mother of school-age children. She said her three children, ages 8, 12 and 14, are enrolled year-round in a public school in Irvine.
“I want to be clear about what is at stake here: children and teachers will contract the virus. They will take it to their families, they will extend it to another community … some will get sick and others will die, “said Porter. “It is an absolute failure of leadership to send children and teachers back to the classroom without a checklist of sticky notes on how to keep them safe, a much less detailed plan.”
He added that the administration’s push “is not a plan” but rather a “death sentence.”
Georgia and California are two of the many states in the US that experience increasing cases of COVID-19. Nationwide, the virus has infected more than 4 million people and killed 146,968, according to data compiled by Johns Hopkins University.
Porter criticized the Trump administration for wasting months of opportunities to create a plan for the start of the school year, including the potential to safely bring children to school or help districts switch to virtual learning plans.
Democrats have widely condemned the Trump administration’s push for schools to reopen. The administration has even threatened to cut funds for schools that do not offer in-person instruction options.
Pérez said Trump’s push to reopen schools is a political decision to help his reelection campaign. The Democrats’ criticism came on the same day the DNC released an ad, which is reportedly to be released on cable channels in the battlefield states, attacking Trump’s push to reopen schools.
The Hill has reached out to the Trump campaign for comment in response to the attack announcement.
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