Trump proposes defunding public schools that don't open during the pandemic

At Thursday's White House press briefing on the coronavirus pandemic, President Donald Trump repeated his insistence that schools should open immediately regardless of whether they have a plan to keep students and teachers safe — despite vast majorities of the public opposed to this demand, and despite the fact that Trump himself is now canceling the Jacksonville portion of the GOP convention out of COVID-19 danger.

Trump then took it a step further, suggesting that public schools that do not reopen should be defunded and their budgets handed out to parents to send their children to private or parochial institutions.