BREAKING NEWS: Trump Apparently Uses Twitter to Give First Notice to 3 U.S. States That He May Blockade Them Somehow; New York Governor Says He Doesn't Know What "Enforceable Quarantine" Would Mean; Rep. Amash Questions Under What Legal Authority This Could Ever Occur in the U.S.
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NOTE/ I approve of federal/state governments trying to think creatively, within the law, to respond to this crisis. But a president making announcements on extraordinary and possibly illegal stratagems via *Twitter*, without first contacting relevant state officials, is *insane*.
NOTE2/ You don't manage via chaos. New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has other sh*t to do today besides trying to *decode insanity* tweeted out by the POTUS without any real communication with the communities his harebrained ideas would impact. That's what's so upsetting about this.
NOTE3/ Morever, if the purpose of any such federal "quarantine" would be to keep people in the New York area, you don't tweet it out to 60 million people. You work behind the scenes with the key state officials. Otherwise you cause people to try to leave the affected states ASAP.
