Trump is ignoring a coronavirus outbreak in meat processing plants and planning to sign an executive order ordering them to stay open.
Jennifer Jacobs tweeted:
BREAKING: Trump plans to order meat processing plants to STAY OPEN, declaring them critical infrastructure under Defense Production Act. Order meant to stave off shortage of beef, chicken, eggs, pork. Plant closures could have shut down as much as 80% of capacity, source says.
— Jennifer Jacobs (@JenniferJJacobs) April 28, 2020
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Trump is also going to sign executive order waving legal liability for meat processing plants in case employees and consumers get sick:
I asked if Trump administration taking any action to protect the U.S. food supply, on closed meatpacking plants or, say, maybe ban exports of pork. He told us he will do an EO to help Tyson Foods with a “liability†problem. Food supply is ok, he told us. pic.twitter.com/6gIB3nDJCN
— Jennifer Jacobs (@JenniferJJacobs) April 28, 2020
The coronavirus is causing thousands of workers in meat processing plants across the country to get sick and die, but instead of dealing with the public health emergency, Donald Trump is going to order the plants to stay open, which will cause the coronavirus to spread and the pandemic to continue. Trump prefers that people get sick and die so that he can have his nightly hamburger and Diet Coke while watching Fox News.
Outside of a vaccine, the only way to beat the virus is not to maintain business as usual.
At each decision point in this crisis, Donald Trump has consistently made the lives of the American people worse with bad and wrong decisions.
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