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I'm Margaret Brennan in Washington and this week on face the nation there's a new dilemma dividing the country. Is it worth

risking the health and potentially the lives of Americans in order to jumpstart our paralyzed economy?

With signs that social distancing and mitigation are slowing the rate of new cases, the Trump administration

issued new guidelines this week to allow some states to start loosening restrictions on

residents. But with a death toll of over 34,000 and rising, the U.S. has reported close to three quarters

of a million cases so far.

Those stark statistics stand in the way of the push to reopen businesses.

The back-to-work argument has its own set of jaw-dropping statistics.

Thirteen percent of the labor force is out of work.

Lines at food banks are getting longer.

And as for small businesses looking for loan assistance

from Congress's record financial bailout,

that money has run out. That struggle is dividing America even further.

How does this situation get worse and get worse quickly if you politicize all that emotion. We cannot go there.

Last week President Trump said he had full authority when it came to reopening the country.

The President of the United States calls the shots.

If we weren't here, he told governors, it's every state for itself.

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