Trump's vaunted task force to reopen the US economy became a marathon series of phone calls with 200 corporate leaders instead

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• Trump's economic task force became a series of four phone calls with 200 corporate leaders on Wednesday, Bloomberg reported.
• The president praised the calls, calling them "productive" in a Monday tweet.
• But some business leaders said they were invited at the last minute to participate, triggering confusion about the ultimate productiveness of the calls.
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President Trump boasted about his impending announcement to launch a new task force focused on reopening the American economy over the past week.

But he has abandoned those plans, Bloomberg reported, citing two people familiar with the matter. He hosted a marathon series of phone calls with 200 corporate leaders on Wednesday instead.See the rest of the story at Business Insider

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