States Are In Crisis: Why Won’t Trump Help
? By Lizbeth Cohen; New York Times
The article above explains the situation of the New Deal in the United States, which was started in the 1950s. According to the deal, United States was expected to assume a safer society which addresses issues of governance such as unemployment among the youth, issues of public housing, collective bargaining and the minimum wage among the employees. Indeed, the state of the nation had degraded following the great depression that destroyed the economy and created high levels of poverty in America. As such. As such, United States governance was expected to solve these issues as a priority to revive the economy and bring the Americans into their typical ways of life. The new deal was expected to recast the structure of the federal government to bring lasting solutions to these issues and state a framework of progressive development which would restore the ordinary situations of the American economy (Cohen 2020). During the formation of the new deal, states such as Washington coherently addressed the crisis of the nation which involved both the state and local governments. Indeed, the state and local governments had tremendously failed to provide remedies to these issues and instead led the nations poorly with limited resources and powers at their disposal.
The issue that Lizbeth Cohen raises in her article concerns the outgoing U.S. president Donald Trump’s ability to crack the whip, in moving the nation towards the new deal. Significantly, Cohen addresses the president’s power in responding to emergencies such as the economic crisis that is invigorated by ongoing covid-19 pandemic (Cohen 2020). While the New Deal was to be progressive for the good of the nation, the U.S. government under Trump was expected to respond to the pandemic positively, and ensure the economy does not perish and also reduce the time taken for the state to restore the new normal. As Cohen’s tittle sounds, “States Are In Crisis. Why Won’t Trump Help?” there is a relationship between the article and federalism. The governance in both state and local levels is expected to harmoniously combat the pandemic as well as ensure the region experience lesser or no negative impacts in the economy and social living. The author is making a plea to the U.S. governance via President Donald Trump to recall the provisions of the new deal and provide the necessary achievement for the good of the nation (Cohen 2020). However, Cohen’s question is like an assignment as she shows her expectation that the government must respond if it purposes to preserve and empower the provisions of the New Deal.
What Problems Have Arisen, Or Could Potentially Arise, As A Result Of The State-National Policy Interaction Discussed In Your Article?
According to the article, one of the milestones that President Barak Obama’s hit was the passing of the Affordable Health Care Act in 2010 (Cohen 2020). The policy was one of the programs that would spearhead the expectations of the New Deal, which was ensuring universal health for the Americans. President Donald Trump recommended the amendment of the bill, which challenged the idea of universal health for the Americans. As a result, the outbreak of Covid-19 in American created problems in the U.S. healthcare responses (Cohen 2020). The increasing demands for healthcare and emergency responses for the covid-19 challenged the federal government, with the United States losing most people to the pandemic in the world. Indeed, the intentions to challenge Obamacare was characterized by discriminations in healthcare delivery and priority.
Cohen asserts that the president’s Trumps administration was not willing and not able to handle the pandemic (Cohen 2020). Such has called the need for a balance amid the federal government and states government to create a promising mechanism of managing the pandemic. President Trump has involved in backlash with news personnel and medical experts on his negligence over the seriousness of the virus, which downgraded the U.S. standards in the world. The president accused China of causing the virus and demanded answers from her while Americans succumbed to the virus. The article provides some light on Trumps failure to meet the expectations of the new deal and trying to challenge the proper health foundations that were created by his preceding administration.
Is United States Federalism An Efficient Method Of Governance, Or Does It Create More Problems Than It Solves? Why?
According to the article, the United States’ federalism under President Donald Trump is ineffective because it failed to uphold the principles of the New Deal (Cohen 2020). Cohen asserts that Republican leadership in the United States is grabbing the moment to set the clock back to pre-new deal delays. Indeed, the expectations of the medical experts in the united states of seeing the federal government heaping resources to the healthcare facilities to ensure substantive care response have been slow and not promising. The approaches to combat the spread of the pandemic have not sufficiently reduced the rate of spread leaving the nation at toll in the virus infections and deaths. Indeed, the U.S. history and governance is criticized by other superpowers such as Great Britain, German, France and China. Indeed, I think the nation is causing more harm than good by failing to preserve the historical journeys set by the previous administration and reducing the status of the government against her close competitors like China. Indeed, trumps administrations are responsible for all this mess.
Reference
Cohen, L. (2020). States Are in Crisis. Why Won’t Trump Help? Retrieved from https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/29/opinion/states-coronavirus-federalism.html