Leaders in the Washington region Tuesday slammed President Trump for defying health experts and calling for the country to return to normal by Easter.

D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D), who has largely refrained from criticizing Trump, said her administration hasn’t received “any national direction,” and she condemned the president’s about-face.

“Clearly it is alarming to hear the president say that without medical and health guidance that he would put the economy and starting the economy ahead of saving lives,” Bowser said. “While we are confronting and trying to blunt the spread of the virus in our city, we are also looking ahead on how we are going to recover from this, and we think the president has to do that, too.”

The mayor has extended the closure of D.C. schools and many businesses as well as the ban on mass gatherings through the end of April, hoping that the extra time will allow health officials to determine if efforts to socially distance have worked.

“I think it would be, based on everything that I’ve read and been advised, premature to go back to normal before we have seen a blunting of the curve in the United States,” Bowser said.

Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan (R) said Tuesday morning that the messaging coming out of the White House was “pretty confusing” and that the president’s remarks don’t appear to align with actions taken by the federal and state governments.

“We don’t think we are going to be in any way out of this in five or six days or so or whenever this 15 days is up, from the time they started this imaginary clock,” Hogan said.

Health officials in Montgomery County also slammed Trump’s recent remarks at a Tuesday briefing with county lawmakers.

Travis Gayles, the county’s chief health officer, described Trump’s recent comments as “recklessly irresponsible, not based upon fact and, quite frankly, disgusting.”

Gayle, who has been praised as a calm voice during the outbreak, said Montgomery County would not pull back from strict social-distancing measures and that regional health officers are developing their own guidelines on the coronavirus.

The county’s head of emergency management, Earl Stoddard, said officials have considered using test kits from other countries because of the lack of federal support.

“We’re not waiting for the feds to step up,” said Gayles. “We’ve known that they’re just not, so we’re not waiting for that to happen.”

Though more measured, Va. Gov. Ralph Northam was also critical of Trump’s comments.