Officials at the Department of Health and Human Services on Thursday changed the website for the Strategic National Stockpile so its mission statement matched a controversial claim made by Jared Kushner, the president’s son-in-law and senior adviser.
“The notion of the federal stockpile was it’s supposed to be our stockpile; it’s not supposed to be state stockpiles that they then use,” Kushner said Thursday. He also claimed that members of Congress who were seeking to ensure sufficient supplies of equipment (such as ventilators) before their districts were running low on them were “asking for things that they don’t necessarily need at the moment…”
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