As A Follow-Up

REPORTER: There's a record number of new infections every day. Does the WH regret encouraging states to reopen as quickly as it did, & did it backfire?

MNUCHIN: "No, absolutely not." pic.twitter.com/0ES9GzSGiW

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) July 2, 2020

What about the fact the European Union thinks so?

The E.U. is reopening borders to 15 countries, but it excluded the United States, Russia and Brazil. The metric the E.U. used was the number of new cases in the past two weeks per 100,000 people. As the New York Times notes, “the average among the 27 European Union countries was 16 in mid-June; in the United States, it was 107.”

I agree with Joe Biden on this;

These new travel restrictions will have real consequences for Americans’ ties to the world — personally, economically, culturally, and strategically. Families that have been separated for months will be kept apart even longer. Commercial opportunities for hard-hit American business will be stunted. And the rift that Trump has created with our closest allies will only widen.

Because Trump can’t do the most basic parts of his job, the United States is now viewed as posing a global health risk. Today, America is first in infections, first in deaths, and the EU has decided to bar Americans from traveling there as Europe reopens.

A president who started his term by writing hateful travel bans is responsible for getting the American people banned from traveling. His presidency is an outrage from start to finish. 

The campaign ads just keep writing themselves.  It's amazing, really.