Analysis: With President Trump encouraging states to open up, despite resistance from public health and emergency-management professionals in his own administration, there's a good opportunity to step back and look at just what the White House has done.
an operation designed to speed up delivery of goods from overseas while also bringing more of the supply under the White House's control. Under the terms, the federal government would assist participating medical-goods companies by paying private air carriers.
One of Project Airbridge's most-heralded deals involved the government paying Federal Express to fly Tyvek, a synthetic material produced in Virginia by DuPont, to Vietnam, where it was sewn into protective coveralls and sold to W.W. Grainger at a cost of $4 per suit. Grainger then took ownership of the coveralls and sold them to the federal government at a price roughly twice that amount. Finally, the feds paid FedEx to fly back the first shipment of what could end up being an order of 4.
At the same time, FBI agents working under the auspices of White House anti-gouging efforts — the Justice Department has its own task for that — did take away goods. In one case, Rep. Richard Neal, D-Mass., the chairman of the House's tax writing committee, intervened with legislative affairs officials in the administration todelivered to a Massachusetts health system.
He was open about the benefits of being his ally, telling the public that he would distribute supplies in part based onshown to him by governors and other political officials. He sent ventilators to two Republican senators, Cory Gardner of Colorado and Martha McSally of Arizona, who are facing tough re-election bids.
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