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Nevilledog

(50,687 posts)
Sun Aug 2, 2020, 09:42 PM Aug 2020

REVEALED: Trump wasted half a billion on 10,000 ventilators that won't arrive until September 2022

https://www.rawstory.com/2020/08/revealed-trump-wasted-half-a-billion-on-10000-ventilators-that-wont-arrive-until-september-2022/


A new report from the U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Reform found that the Trump Administration repeatedly delayed an Obama-era order from the health-technology company Philips for 10,000 ventilators, wasting half-a-billion dollars for machines that won’t even arrive until September 2022.

According to the report, in 2014, the Obama Administration signed a contract with Philips to add 10,000 ventilators to the nation’s stockpile by June 2019. Though Philips delayed the fulfillment until November 2019, had they been held to that deadline, the nation would have had plenty of ventilators for when the coronavirus epidemic started in March 2020.

However, the Trump Administration granted Philips three extensions.

“On January 21, 2020, when the first coronavirus case was reported in the United States,” the report states, “Philips approached the Trump Administration about accelerating the delivery of ventilators under its existing contract. The Trump Administration ignored this opportunity, and for six weeks, it did not respond to Philips’ offer.”

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REVEALED: Trump wasted half a billion on 10,000 ventilators that won't arrive until September 2022 (Original Post) Nevilledog Aug 2020 OP
He must be getting money himself through this JI7 Aug 2020 #1
I think the amount they've distributed is what Obama /Biden already had in stock soothsayer Aug 2020 #2
Deal was formalized by Jared's college roomate and Navarro aide who just graduated from college EleanorR Aug 2020 #3

soothsayer

(38,601 posts)
2. I think the amount they've distributed is what Obama /Biden already had in stock
Sun Aug 2, 2020, 09:46 PM
Aug 2020

What a miserable jerk that guy is.

EleanorR

(2,374 posts)
3. Deal was formalized by Jared's college roomate and Navarro aide who just graduated from college
Sun Aug 2, 2020, 10:21 PM
Aug 2020
In late January, with the pandemic moving through China and into Europe, Philips approached Trump administration officials to ask whether it should accelerate ventilator production under an existing contract, the report says.

But it wasn't until April 7, after demand for the devices had peaked and already started to ebb, that the Department of Health and Human Services signed a new contract with Philips to purchase 43,000 ventilators at $15,000 apiece. The administration never tried to negotiate that price, based on the documentation. By comparison, a purchaser in Missouri paid $9,327 for a single unit on April 30.

While Navarro served as chief negotiator, the deal was formalized by Adam Boehler, CEO of the U.S. International Development Finance Corporation, who is a former college roommate of Jared Kushner, Trump's senior adviser and son-in-law. Christopher Abbott, an aide to Navarro who graduated from college just last year, oversaw a majority of the communications between Philips and the White House.


https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/house-democrats-find-administration-overspent-ventilators-much-500-million-n1235252
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