https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-52363318
Democratic governors have asked the White House to urge Americans to heed stay-at-home orders amid anti-lockdown protests stoked by the president.
Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer said the “phenomenon was nationwide” and asked for “help on the national level”.
President Donald Trump has been accused of inciting insurrection after championing the demonstrators, while telling governors they were in charge.
The plea comes amid 782,159 confirmed US Covid-19 cases and 41,816 deaths.
The protesters – who say the Covid-19 restrictions are draconian – are largely conservative and pro-Trump.
As one militia leader in Illinois put it to the BBC: “Reopen my state or we will reopen it ourselves.”
The demonstrations have taken place in more than a dozen states from coast to coast, varying in size from a few dozen protesters to more than 2,000.