California governor responds to Nunes on canceling school: ‘We’ll continue to listen to the experts’

California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) on Friday brushed aside Rep. Devin Nunes’s (R-Calif.) claim that it was “overkill” for California to cancel the rest of the school year amid the coronavirus outbreak.

“We’ll continue to listen to the experts and try to avoid some elected officials that frankly may not have the benefit of some of the insight that many of us do,” Newsom told “The View” host Joy Behar via video call. 

Gov. @GavinNewsom on Rep. Nunes saying it was “overkill” to close Calif. schools for year: “We’ll continue to listen to the experts and try to avoid some elected officials that frankly may not have the benefit of some of the insight that many of us do.” https://t.co/A2bAom7r5k pic.twitter.com/IImhgRrNw6

— The View (@TheView) April 3, 2020

Nunes had said that schools in California could’ve gone back to physical classes “in two to four weeks.”

Newsom hasn’t officially canceled the school year in California, though earlier in the week the state’s superintendent of public instruction, Tony Thurmond, said that it was likely students would not return to the classroom, but that virtual instruction would continue.

On Thursday night Nunes asserted that people should get back to work as soon as possible, despite the White House extending its social distancing advisory for all Americans until the end of April.