Trump blasted Pritzker, saying he is 'always complaining.'
crisis, saying the president doesn’t understand the meaning of the word “federal” or the role he is supposed to fulfill.On “State of the Union” Sunday morning, Pritzker told host Jake Tapper that the White House knew about the coming pandemic in January and early February and didn’t prepare.
“If [the Trump administration] had started in February building ventilators, getting ready for this pandemic, we would not have the problems that we have today and frankly, very many fewer people would die,” Pritzker said. Trump has insisted that states obtain their own supplies, including protective gear like masks and gowns for health-care workers and ventilators for patients, rather than rely on the federal stockpile., the president’s son-in-law and adviser, said last week that supplies in the Strategic National Stockpile were “our” stockpile and not intended for states.
“The Strategic National Stockpile is the nation’s largest supply of life-saving pharmaceuticals and medical supplies for use in a public health emergency severe enough to cause local supplies to run out,” the website read. “When state, local, tribal and territorial responders request federal assistance to support their response efforts,” it continued, “the stockpile ensures that the right medicines and supplies get to those who need them most during an emergency. Organized for scalable response to a variety of public health threats, this repository contains enough supplies to respond to multiple large-scale emergencies simultaneously.
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