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GanonsSpirit posted...

ProPublica reported on April 3 that congressional budget battles in the early years of the Obama administration contributed to stockpile shortages. But the article notes available funds were used not to replenish masks: "With limited resources, officials in charge of the stockpile tend to focus on buying lifesaving drugs from small biotechnology firms that would, in the absence of a government buyer, have no other market for their products, experts said. Masks and other protective equipment are in normal times widely available and thus may not have been prioritized for purchase, they said."

Sounds like congress's fault, to me.

Quoting again because apparently no one read it.

So again...ever since Trump came into office and deficits stopped mattering again (witness the huge hand out to the rich w/ the 2017 tax law that blatantly wasn't "paying for itself" and now how we've blown trillions of dollars in the span of a week on this virus), why hasn't some money been spent to replenish the supply?