It's Brian Lehrer, and this is my daily politics podcast from WNYC Studios. It's Tuesday, April 21st.

Another day of pandemic politics over the issues of testing, immigration, and social distancing.

The president tweeted last night that he'll temporarily suspend all immigration to the U.S.

because so many U.S. citizens are losing their job.

So far, it's just a tweet.

We'll see what the actual policy proposal is, if any, that follows.

Three southern states will start reopening their economies.

You've heard this, in some cases, without meeting the federal guidelines of two weeks of

steadily declining caseloads.

The mayor of Atlanta can't believe she's being asked by the Georgia governor to reopen close contact businesses

like gyms, restaurants, hair salons, and bowling alleys.

Here with Chris Cuomo on CNN last night is Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms.

Chris, I have four kids in my house and no sooner than the governor made his announcement, my 18

year old who will be 18 tomorrow came running into the room to announce to me that the governor

said he could leave home. So as a parent, I am concerned because what I know is that when

I look at the data that we receive from our public health

department each day, our numbers are going up.

The mayor of Atlanta on CNN last night.

It's the intersection of politics, economics, and public health.

We'll see if they can really establish social distancing practices at places like bowling alleys and gyms and hair salons and restaurants without actually launching a new pandemic surge.

One commentator yesterday said, blue America thinks we're in a public health crisis, red America thinks were in an economic crisis.

Maybe it's not that simply polarized,

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