U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday says that he wants America’s schools to be safely reopened despite rising COVID-19 cases in different places of the United States.
President Trump and the first lady Melania Trump joined the White House event held to push local school districts to reopen in the fall. The event provided a forum for teachers, administrators, students, and parents to discuss safely reopening schools around the country.
In a conference held on White House on Tuesday, Trump says, “When you look at education, my administration has approved $13 billion for state and local education.”
“We’ve approved over $6 billion to support colleges and another $6 billion in emergency grants to students, very importantly. We waived standardized testing requirements, deferred federal student loans, and interest payments.”
“We’ve pioneered new treatments that are dramatically improving health outcomes. Vaccines are doing very well. Therapeutics is doing very well. Therapeutic research has been incredible. And I think you’re going to have a lot of big things happening long before the end of the year, on both vaccines and therapeutics,” he added.
“So what we want to do is we want to get our schools open. We want to get them open quickly, beautifully, in the fall.”
Trump ends up saying, “Because it’s very important as so many of the parents and instructors said today, it’s so important that the children at this age, especially that they’re together, they’re together on campus. And that’s what we’re striving for, and we’re going to be very strong on that. We’re going to be very, very powerful on that view. We want our schools open in the fall.”
Later on Wednesday, Trump twitted, “In Germany, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, and many other countries, SCHOOLS ARE OPEN WITH NO PROBLEMS.”
"The Dems think it would be bad for them politically if U.S. schools open before the November Election, but is important for the children & families. May cut off funding if not open!,” he twitted.
A tally by Johns Hopkins University showed, the United States has recorded 55,000 new coronavirus cases on Wednesday, till Thursday its total is 3,159,514 recorded infections since the pandemic began. Also, the death toll has reached to 134,873.
The United States is the hardest-hit country in the world by coronavirus infections in the world rank. Many countries have been criticizing Trump for handling the COVID-19 pandemic.
