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Posted: April 01 2020 at 5:43pm |
A White House task force has put on hold contributions to foreign countries' efforts to battle the coronavirus from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) in order to better review the supplies being sent abroad. Politico reported Wednesday that the coronavirus task force headed by Vice President Pence is reviewing all aid shipments of personal protective equipment (PPE) bound for foreign countries to ensure that the U.S. is not sending superfluous shipments or items that are needed in the U.S. to fight the coronavirus. “The idea is to figure out what is in short supply and how it compares to what USAID has overseas,” said one official familiar with the review process. “Given what’s happening in the United States and the shortage of critical supplies, it would be really difficult to be sending things abroad when we need them here at home.” The decision to place shipments on hold for review came after U.S. officials reportedly discovered that items they planned to ask officials in Thailand to contribute to the U.S. were already on the way out of the U.S. in the form of a USAID shipment to Thailand. The review process is meant to place one official in charge of the shipments so that the administration has better control over the process, the official continued. “The problem is, there’s not one person who’s in charge of this, which is why we’re instituting a review process that is led by the White House coronavirus task force,” they said. A spokesperson for the vice president called the decision a "holistic approach" to ensuring that shortages of PPE in the U.S. were not further compounded by aid shipments. “It’s a good thing that we're taking a holistic look at where and when we’re sending PPE as we're looking to fulfill needs here at home,” the spokesperson told Politico. |
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Thank goodness The response was chilling. The Thai official on the other line was confused that Pence was asking for masks considering that Thailand was waiting on a shipment of masks from us. Pence was stunned. Could it be that the US Agency for International Development was actually giving away medical equipment to foreign countries? Yes, that is exactly what was happening. Government officials have been buying up personal protective equipment (PPE), like masks and gowns, and instead of giving it to American hospitals to treat American patients, the equipment was shipped overseas as “foreign aid.” This is so disgusting… Last week, Democrats forced the GOP to add over 760 million in foreign aid to the stimulus bill. That included 95 million for USAID and 258 million for foreign disaster relief. This was one of the sticking points that Democrats used to delay the stimulus package for an entire week. They literally turned their backs on Americans to try to get more foreign aid approved… And now we know what that foreign aid funding was being used for… USAID was buying up medical equipment and sending it overseas… Enough is enough. The United States of America is the most generous country on earth. No civilization has helped more people escape poverty and tyranny than the United States. Whenever there is a natural disaster, the United States is the first on the scene to help. But right now, we need to take care of the American people. The Chinese Virus has now infected over 190,000 people and killed 4,000 Americans. Hospitals are running out of medical equipment and doctors and nurses are being forced to use homemade masks a |
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keep the joy
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100% agreed! |
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yes agree, you have to look after your own 1st and for most |
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This is something you and I totally agree on. In this matter, America and Americans should come first. |
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