Trump Attacks CDC School Reopening Guidelines, Eyes Issuing His Own

President Donald Trump intensified his pressure campaign to reopen schools, attacking the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention over guidelines he said were too onerous, costly, and impractical.

Trump's White House is preparing its own, less-restrictive guidelines for school reopening in response to concerns about the CDC plan, NBC News reports.

Trump, in tweets Wednesday, said he’d be meeting with the CDC about the guidance, and threatened to withhold federal funding to schools that didn’t fully reopen, as he urged schools to begin again this fall with in-person classes...