Joshua Cervantes
White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany doubled down on President Donald Trump’s insistence that U.S. schools reopen in the fall despite a nationwide surge in virus cases, saying the White House believes that schools and teachers are “essential.”
“It is our firm belief that our schools are essential places of business, if you will, that our teachers are essential personnel,” McEnany said at the White House press briefing Friday.
Asked why President Trump felt it appropriate to cancel the Jacksonville portion of the Republican National Convention due to soaring COVID cases, but he still believes kids should return to classrooms, McEnany said “schools are a different situation.”
She said the CDC guidelines state that children are “not affected in the same way as adults” and arrangements for social distancing are easier to make in schools.
On Russia and Trump’s phone call with President Vladimir Putin Thursday, McEnany wouldn’t say whether reports of Russian bounties being offered on U.S. troops in Afghanistan came up on the call.
She reiterated the administration claim that the “intelligence is unverified still to this day. There are dissenting opinions within the intel community.”
Asked later in the briefing whether the topic of election security came up during the phone call, McEnany said she “wasn’t on the call,” but added that Trump “has taken more actions for election security than his predecessor.”
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