(CNN)The simmering tension between President Donald Trump and the nation’s governors over coronavirus testing has escalated as the two sides continue to tangle over whether the much-needed expansion of testing capacity is the responsibility of the states or the federal government. Exasperated after a week in which industry leaders, governors, Democratic senators and even allies warned Trump and Vice President Mike Pence that the nation cannot get back to business-as-usual without a substantial increase in testing nationally, Trump faulted governors Saturday for not moving quickly enough to ramp up capacity in their states. Pushing back on Trump’s insistence that the federal government should merely serve as a backstop for states, several governors have argued that Trump’s hope for reopening the economy cannot happen until there is adequate testing in their states and that they need federal aid to do that. But during a White House briefing Saturday, the President chided governors for complaining and charged that testing is simply the latest coronavirus issue that Democrats are politicizing to convince Americans that Trump is mishandling the coronavirus response. It was yet another week in which the only consistent theme that governors could draw from the White House was inconsistency. And governors… Read full this story
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