WASHINGTON — The top Democratic leaders are urging President Donald Trump to fly flags at half-staff on public buildings across the country when the U.S. coronavirus death toll reaches 100,000.
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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer made the request in a letter sent to Trump on Thursday. They say the gesture would “serve as a national expression of grief so needed by everyone in our country.”
There have been more than 93,000 COVID-19 deaths in the U.S., according to Johns Hopkins University.
The White House had no immediate response to the letter.
a beautiful sentiment whatever the # for America to do
New York and the entire nation needs to consider a monument to those who were killed by this cruel disease.