New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan GrishamMichelle Lynn Lujan GrishamCuomo to serve as National Association of Governors chair Biden: I’ll have a running mate picked next week The Hill’s Coronavirus Report: Rep. Angie Craig says we need an equitable distribution plan for an eventual vaccine that reaches all communities; Moderna vaccine enters phase 3 trial in US today MORE (D) said Sunday that her state is “at the mercy of what’s going on around the country.”
Lujan Grisham called the U.S.’s COVID-19 response the “worst abdication” of the “responsibility to protect Americans I’ve ever seen” during an interview on ABC’s “This Week.”
“There is no national strategy,” she said. “I still spend most of my days chasing testing supplies for our state. It is the worst abdication of a national response and responsibility to protect Americans I have ever seen in my government career.”
The governor blasted Trump in her interview for canceling the GOP convention in Jacksonville, Fla., for safety reasons but continuing to demand that schools reopen “immediately.”
Lujan Grisham declared last week that classes will remain virtual until at least Sept. 7 as the federal government is encouraging schools to be prepared for in-person instruction in the fall.
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