Warren wants to know why Pence rejected U.S. goods in COVID fight
My guess is that trump will NOT give out any information.
Warren wants to know why Pence rejected U.S. goods in COVID fight
Former Democratic presidential candidate says the decision to decline American manufacturing help "likely contributed" to shortages and spread of the disease.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/warren-wants-know-why-pence-rejected-u-s-goods-covid-n1231449
June 18, 2020, 12:48 PM CDT
By Jonathan Allen
Sen. Elizabeth Warren said Thursday that the Trump administration's failure to prioritize American manufacturing during the initial stages of its COVID-19 response "likely contributed" to the "ongoing spread of the disease."
In a letter sent Thursday to Vice President Mike Pence, and reported first by NBC News, Warren and Rep. Jan Schakowsky, D-Ill., say they want more information about the administration's efforts to acquire goods to respond to the coronavirus crisis. Specifically, they want to know why the administration turned down a January offer from Texas-based Prestige Ameritech to ramp up mask-making capacity.
Dr. Rick Bright, a whistleblower and former head of the government's biomedical research agency, told lawmakers last month that the company's entreaties — made just as COVID-19 began to appear in the U.S. in late January — were shut down. That's at least in part because the administration wasn't prepared to start ordering personal protective equipment in bulk.
"If these reports are accurate, they indicate that the Trump Administration’s dismissal of an offer from a U.S.-based company to manufacture millions of N95 respirators and its failure to anticipate the immense need for masks has likely contributed to the chronic nationwide shortage of crucial protective equipment and the ongoing spread of the disease," Warren and Schakowsky wrote.
The company ultimately did get a contract in April after publicly complaining that President Donald Trump wasn't putting domestic manufacturers first and then getting a cut-to-the-front-of-the-line introduction to White House aide Peter Navarro from 2016 Trump campaign CEO Steve Bannon's team. The White House ordered up a no-bid $9.5 million deal for Prestige Ameritech, according to federal records.............................
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