It's Wednesday, May 6th. I'm Achila Hughes.

And I'm Gideon Resnick and this is what a day where we're congratulating Grimes on becoming a motherboard.

Yeah, and using a keyboard and just slapping her hands on it to name the kid.

It's like XAE, X9, 77, whatever it is.

I have.

Look, as a black person with a name that people fuck up, I'm upset.

On today's show, we check in with Wisconsin's newly elected Supreme Court Justice, then some headlines, but first the latest.

Okay, so that's the sound of shepherds hurting tons of sheep through streets and turkey that are empty because of coronavirus curfews.

So in case you ever wanted to know what that sounds like, that was that.

But in news, Vice President Pence told reporters yesterday that the coronavirus task force created to manage the federal government's response to the pandemic could be disbanded within a month because of quote, the tremendous progress we've made as a country to that I say, sir, Achila, what does this actually mean?

Dude, I don't know. Like at this point, I don't know. I don't have an answer for the delusion. And I just literally don't know.

As far as progress goes, many states are reopening, even as cases are increasing and models are predicting an additional uptick in cases, more than 70,000 Americans died.

So if this is progress, honestly, I don't know what the goal is.

A senior White House official told CNN that the task force will be phased down by Memorial Day and Trump told reporters during his maskless trip to the Honeywell mask plant in Arizona that even after the task force is disbanded, Dr. Berks, the virus response coordinator for the task force.

And other top public officials could still be involved in the efforts to address the pandemic.

And on that front, do we know in what capacity are they going to be doing their own press conferences or something?

I mean, I think we just have to stop assuming that this administration has a plan.

All we know is that they claim that we're still going to hear from them. There are never details.

But practically speaking, disbanding the task force means that we could have less coordination between federal agencies and less of a planned response effort.

Not that it's been going that great so far.

The administration is having a particularly bad week in regards to their coronavirus response.

Aside from this bizarre statement from the vice president, re-progress, Rick Bright, the former top vaccine official removed from his post in April, alleged in a whistleblower complaint that he was reassigned because he tried to quote

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