Complex Event Analysis - Report

Key Focus

  • But as of Monday, no one in the state is under a mandatory stay-at-home order.
    This patchwork of restrictions is far from perfect, and it has drawn criticism from public health experts who say it risks luring people from restrictive areas to less restrictive ones in search of goods and services.
    Some of these experts have even called on Trump to issue a nationwide lockdown, a response adopted by many governments around the globe which have prohibited their citizens from leaving their homes.
    Yet so far, the federal government's primary public health agency, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, has only issued "guidance" for individuals, businesses and healthcare providers.
    An example of this kind of guidance is the CDC's national campaign, dubbed "30 Days to Stop the Spread," which recommends hand washing, social distancing and staying home.
    Feds offer guidance and aid
    All of this is not to imply that Trump has not used the powers of the presidency to responded to the crisis, however
  • As the nation entered its third straight week of near total economic shutdown on Monday, President Donald Trump falsely claimed that it will be his decision when the nation's businesses will reopen during the coronavirus pandemic, and not a choice left to individual governors.
    But legal experts say Trump is wrong. For one, they note that U.S. law gives state governors wide latitude to protect the health and safety of their constituents.
  • He has also signed congressional legislation providing more than $2 trillion in federal aid to businesses and individuals hard hit by the economic shutdown.
    After initially resisting the move, Trump was even convinced to invoke the Defense Production Act to force U.S. companies to manufacture much-needed medical equipment.
    Still, few of these actions, save for the travel bans, are the type that would be lifted or reversed if the nation's public health experts determined that the virus'spread had been slowed enough so that schools and businesses could reopen
  • No momentum supporting factor found

    Challenge supporting factors

  • (federal, trump)
  • (federal, health)
  • (health, trump)
  • (experts, trump)
  • (governments, health)
  • (businesses, trump)
  • (trump, virus)
  • (travel, trump)
  • (citizens, health)
  • (health, individuals)
  • Work-in-progress supporting factors

  • (health, trump)
  • (experts, trump)
  • (businesses, trump)
  • (federal, trump)
  • (experts, health)
  • (economic, trump)
  • (businesses, health)
  • (trump, virus)
  • (travel, trump)
  • (individuals, trump)
  • Complex Event Time Series Summary - REPORT


    Time PeriodChallengeMomentumWIP
    Report62.67 0.00 37.34

    High Level Abstraction (HLA) combined

    High Level Abstraction (HLA)Report
    (1) (health,trump)100.00
    (2) (federal,trump)83.05
    (3) (experts,trump)55.93
    (4) (businesses,trump)49.15
    (5) (federal,health)36.72
    (6) (trump,virus)29.94
    (7) (travel,trump)27.68
    (8) (individuals,trump)24.29
    (9) (experts,health)19.77
    (10) (economic,trump)19.77
    (11) (businesses,health)17.51
    (12) (governments,health)16.95
    (13) (citizens,health)14.12
    (14) (health,individuals)12.99
    (15) (guidance,trump)11.30
    (16) (economic,health)10.73
    (17) (trump,united_states)9.04
    (18) (stay-at-home,trump)8.47
    (19) (services,trump)7.91
    (20) (coronavirus,health)6.78
    (21) (health,white_house)2.82
    (22) (donald_trump,health)0.56

    Complex Event Analysis - REPORT

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    Supporting narratives:

    • challenge (Read more)
      • But as of Monday, no one in the state is under a mandatory stay-at-home order.
        This patchwork of restrictions is far from perfect, and it has drawn criticism from public health experts who say it risks luring people from restrictive areas to less restrictive ones in search of goods and services.
        Some of these experts have even called on Trump to issue a nationwide lockdown, a response adopted by many governments around the globe which have prohibited their citizens from leaving their homes.
        Yet so far, the federal government's primary public health agency, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, has only issued "guidance" for individuals, businesses and healthcare providers.
        An example of this kind of guidance is the CDC's national campaign, dubbed "30 Days to Stop the Spread," which recommends hand washing, social distancing and staying home.
        Feds offer guidance and aid
        All of this is not to imply that Trump has not used the powers of the presidency to responded to the crisis, however
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (citizens,health)
        • (federal,health)
        • (businesses,trump)
        • (governments,health)
        • (health,individuals)
        • (federal,trump)
        • (experts,trump)
        • (health,trump)
        • (services,trump)
        • (stay-at-home,trump)
        • (individuals,trump)
        • (guidance,trump)
        • Inferred entity relationships (6)
        • (federal,trump,vice_president_joe_biden) [inferred]
        • (federal,trump,washington) [inferred]
        • (federal,trump,workforce) [inferred]
        • (federal,trump,white_house_june) [inferred]
        • (federal,trump,united_states) [inferred]
        • (federal,trump,white_house) [inferred]

    • challenge (Read more)
      • He has also restricted travel to the United States from China and Europe, where the virus has infected hundreds of thousands of people.
        As the virus spread through the country this spring, Trump also issued federal disaster declarations for dozens of hard-hit states, permitting them to access emergency funding from the federal government
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (travel,trump)
        • (trump,united_states)
        • (federal,trump)
        • (trump,virus)
        • Inferred entity relationships (6)
        • (federal,trump,vice_president_joe_biden) [inferred]
        • (federal,trump,washington) [inferred]
        • (federal,trump,workforce) [inferred]
        • (federal,trump,united_states) [inferred]
        • (federal,trump,white_house) [inferred]
        • (federal,trump,white_house_june) [inferred]

    • challenge (Read more)
      • A White House spokesman did not immediately respond to questions from CNBC about what the president meant by this.
        In reality, the authority to protect the public health of U.S. citizens by directing shutdowns and shelter-in-place orders lies squarely with the nation's governors, and not with the president.
        "State and local governments have strong police power to protect their citizens and so I'm unaware of any way in which the federal government could basically try to override anything the states and cities have been doing to protect the public health of their citizens," said William Buzbee, a professor at Georgetown University Law School and an expert in federalism.
        "Since the president has mainly acted in a sort of bully pulpit sort of way, there's nothing in particular that he would be reversing or restarting," Buzbee told CNBC.
        "I don't know what it means for the president to 'open up the states,'" conservative legal scholar Josh Blackman told NBC News on Monday.
        "The president does make certain declarations about critical infrastructure and other guidelines that states generally follow
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (citizens,health)
        • (federal,health)
        • (governments,health)
        • (health,white_house)

    • challenge (Read more)
      • Why Trump's claim that he has power to 'open up'states amid coronavirus is false
        PUBLISHED MON, APR 13 20202:30 EDTUPDATED 22 falsely claims that it will be his decision when "to open up the states" and not that of the governors.
        In fact, the law gives the power to protect public health to individual states and state governments.
        Trump has sought to project an image of almost unlimited presidential authority during the coronavirus crisis.
        GP: Donald Trump 200409 - 106486217
        President Donald Trump pauses while speaking during the Coronavirus Task Force press briefing at the White House in Washington, D.C., on Thursday, April 9, 2020.
        Oliver Contreras | SIPA | Bloomberg via Getty Images
        WASHINGTON
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (governments,health)
        • (coronavirus,health)
        • (health,white_house)
        • (donald_trump,health)
        • Inferred entity relationships (1)
        • (coronavirus,health,redfield) [inferred]

    • WIP (Read more)
      • As the nation entered its third straight week of near total economic shutdown on Monday, President Donald Trump falsely claimed that it will be his decision when the nation's businesses will reopen during the coronavirus pandemic, and not a choice left to individual governors.
        But legal experts say Trump is wrong. For one, they note that U.S. law gives state governors wide latitude to protect the health and safety of their constituents.
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (health,trump)

    • WIP (Read more)
      • He has also signed congressional legislation providing more than $2 trillion in federal aid to businesses and individuals hard hit by the economic shutdown.
        After initially resisting the move, Trump was even convinced to invoke the Defense Production Act to force U.S. companies to manufacture much-needed medical equipment.
        Still, few of these actions, save for the travel bans, are the type that would be lifted or reversed if the nation's public health experts determined that the virus'spread had been slowed enough so that schools and businesses could reopen
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (businesses,trump)
        • (federal,trump)
        • (experts,trump)
        • (health,trump)
        • (travel,trump)
        • (economic,trump)
        • (individuals,trump)
        • Inferred entity relationships (6)
        • (federal,trump,vice_president_joe_biden) [inferred]
        • (federal,trump,washington) [inferred]
        • (federal,trump,workforce) [inferred]
        • (federal,trump,white_house_june) [inferred]
        • (federal,trump,united_states) [inferred]
        • (federal,trump,white_house) [inferred]

    • WIP (Read more)
      • As the nation entered its third straight week of near total economic shutdown on Monday, President Donald Trump falsely claimed that it will be his decision when the nation's businesses will reopen during the coronavirus pandemic, and not a choice left to individual governors.
        But legal experts say Trump is wrong. For one, they note that U.S. law gives state governors wide latitude to protect the health and safety of their constituents
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (experts,health)
        • (experts,trump)

    • WIP (Read more)
      • As the nation entered its third straight week of near total economic shutdown on Monday, President Donald Trump falsely claimed that it will be his decision when the nation's businesses will reopen during the coronavirus pandemic, and not a choice left to individual governors.
        But legal experts say Trump is wrong
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (businesses,health)
        • (economic,trump)
        • (businesses,trump)
        • (coronavirus,health)
        • (economic,health)
        • Inferred entity relationships (1)
        • (coronavirus,health,redfield) [inferred]

    • WIP (Read more)
      • He has also signed congressional legislation providing more than $2 trillion in federal aid to businesses and individuals hard hit by the economic shutdown.
        After initially resisting the move, Trump was even convinced to invoke the Defense Production Act to force U.S. companies to manufacture much-needed medical equipment.
        Still, few of these actions, save for the travel bans, are the type that would be lifted or reversed if the nation's public health experts determined that the virus'spread had been slowed enough so that schools and businesses could reopen.
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (trump,virus)

    Target rule match count: 29.0 Challenge: 0.31 Momentum: 0.00 WIP: 0.19