Even for this White House, it seemed like an odd thing to say. Jared Kushner, speaking at a coronavirus briefing, suggested that medical supplies owned by the federal government aren’t necessarily for state use. “[T]he notion of the federal stockpile was it’s supposed to be our stockpile. It’s not supposed to be states’ stockpiles that they then use,” the young presidential son-in-law told reporters.
It didn’t take much sleuthing to debunk Kushner’s claim. After all, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services maintains a website that explicitly says the role of the Strategic National Stockpile is intended to be used by state, local, tribal, and territorial responders who “request federal assistance…”
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