A Month After Emergency Declaration, Trump's Promises Largely Unfulfilled
Source: NPR
NPR's Investigations Team dug into each of the claims made from the podium that day. And rather than a sweeping national campaign of screening, drive-through sample collection and lab testing, it found a smattering of small pilot projects and aborted efforts.
In some cases, no action was taken at all. Target did not partner with the federal government, for example.
And a lauded Google project turned out to not to be led by Google at all, and then once launched was limited to a smattering of counties in California.
The remarks in the Rose Garden highlighted the Trump administration's strategic approach: a preference for public-private partnerships. But as the White House defined what those private companies were going to do, in many cases it promised more than they could pull off.
• Drive-Through Testing Largely Nonexistent At Retail Partners
• Home Testing Promised, But Not Implemented
• No Screening Website To Facilitate Drive-Through Testing
"What became clear in the days and weeks or even in some cases the hours following that event was that they had significantly over-promised what the private sector was ready to do," said Jeremy Konyndyk, senior policy fellow at the Center for Global Development.
Read more: https://www.npr.org/2020/04/13/832797592/a-month-after-emergency-declaration-trumps-promises-largely-unfulfilled
Lies...lies...lies, we only hear lies and empty promises.
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