White House rejects national strategy on masks

The White House is once more rejecting requires a national mask-wearing mandate.

White House chief of employees Mark Meadows says in an look on “Fox and Friends” Monday morning that the president sees the difficulty as a “state-to-state” matter.

He says that, “certainly a national mandate is not in order” and that “we’re allowing our local governors and our local mayors to weigh in on that.”

New Jersey’s Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy has mentioned he’d prefer to see a national strategy on the coronavirus, together with a masks requirement. He says his state is seeing “small spikes in reinfection” from residents getting back from Florida, South Carolina and different virus hotspots, and the U.S. is “as strong as our weakest link right now.”

Vice President Mile Pence has additionally rejected the thought of a national mandate, saying that is as much as governors and native well being officers.