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turbinetree

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Tue Mar 24, 2020, 08:03 PM Mar 2020

FEMA flip-flops on whether or not it used DPA to obtain test kits after Trump's press conference

Published 1 min ago on March 24, 2020
By Matthew Chapman

President Donald Trump has been sending mixed signals about whether or not he has actually authorized the Defense Production Act to compel the private sector to produce new medical equipment — and as he does, so too have the federal agencies that would actually be carrying out his order.

Early on Tuesday, both the president and FEMA suggested that the DPA had been activated to procure test kits for coronavirus — but at his press conference in the afternoon, Trump seemed to reverse himself and say the government has not “found it to be the case” that DPA is necessary yet.

https://www.rawstory.com/2020/03/fema-flip-flops-on-whether-or-not-it-used-dpa-to-obtain-test-kits-after-trumps-press-conference/

Fuck the Chamber of Commerce and fuck this BS that FEMA has been able to get them from the private market...............where the hell are they.............................


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