Gretchen Whitmer’s approach to fighting the coronavirus outbreak in Michigan, one of the nation’s worst hot spots. Whitmer said in an interview Tuesday that she worries Republican state lawmakers, who have said she does not have the authority to continue her coronavirus executive order, are pushing people to violate it. Anita Kruschinska, a 46-year-old who owns a rabbit-and-poultry farm in northern Michigan, voted for Trump in 2016 and for Whitmer’s Republican opponent, Schuette, in 2018. State lawmakers began challenging the governor’s authority to extend her emergency declaration at the end of April and last week sued the governor. Republican lawmakers have not backed Whitmer’s efforts to get businesses to comply.

Source: Washington Post May 12, 2020 22:48 UTC