Jay Inslee actually said...

It would be very helpful if we had a national policy, all the way up from PPE, to testing kits, to contact tracing, to masking requirements.

This is a familiar and very infuriating pattern of the President. He started this situation by denying a problem, then he disengaged from it...

to have a president of the United States entreat people to ignore the law, that cannot stand.

Only the president is in position to do that. That's why we really need that leadership.