Jared Kushner Task Force Mocked as "the Children" in FEMA Headquarters
Donald Trump puts a lot of responsibility on his son-in-law's shoulders. Despite Jared Kushner's relative lack of experience with anything beyond managing family real estate, he was tasked with the Trump White House's efforts to negotiate peace between Israel and Palestine, for which he ordered everyone involved "doesn't talk to me about history." Then he was put in charge of Trump's border wall. Now, the president has tapped Kushner for the biggest challenge facing the U.S. in recent history, the COVID-19 outbreak, and he's doing as well as he did on achieving a two-state solution and completing a border wall.
Kushner is in charge of a supply chain unit inside of vice president Mike Pence's coronavirus response task force, meaning he's responsible for ramping up production of essential equipment—like much-needed ventilators for intensive care units and personal protective equipment (PPE) like N95 respirator masks—and distributing them to states. So far, the Trump administration hasn't had a great track record on either count. Hospitals across the country are dealing with crippling shortages of PPE, and in a press briefing Kushner bristled at the idea that the federal government should be doing more to help, telling reporters that a federal stockpile of supplies was "ours." In some instances, the federal government is bidding against states for equipment, and there have even been cases of the government seizing supplies from hospitals with no explanation. According to a new NBC News story, that's because the top two priorities for Kushner's task force are protecting "private profit and the ability of the White House to choose where supplies go."
Inside the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), Kushner doesn't inspire anywhere near the confidence Trump seems to have in him—in fact, his task force is derisively labelled "the children" since they seem to have no idea what they're doing and are more focused on tapping personal contacts than making effective decisions. Kushner appears convinced that the best way to meet a fast-moving pandemic is to take a page from tech start-up culture: he&aposs bent on disrupting federal emergency management policy, a move that governors and public health official tell NBC News has turned the response effort into chaos and a slowdown. "Jared and his friends decided they were going to do their thing," one senior government official involved in the response said. "It cost weeks."
Kushner's task force operates largely in the dark, releasing little information and facing no accountability or official scrutiny for any of its decisions. Typically, FEMA would use its regional offices to tap smaller local vendors for emergency supplies. Under Kushner's leadership, his task force has scrapped all of that, preferring to contract with massive corporations.
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The more you learn about these idiots the worse it gets.
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