Trump careened through a critical week in the coronavirus crisis
by Chris Megerian, Noah Bierman and Eli Stokols, Los Angeles Times
Apr 19, 2020
4 minutes
WASHINGTON - When AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka was shown a draft last week of President Trump's plan to reopen the economy, he worried it didn't offer enough testing for the coronavirus to ensure that millions of Americans could safely return to work.
"I've heard people say we have all the tests we need," Trumka said. "That's just not the case right now on the ground."
So after he was named to a presidential advisory group, Trumka planned to raise his concerns in a conference call. But with dozens dialed in, the head of the country's largest federation of labor unions never got to speak.
In the end, it didn't matter. The draft that
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