FEMA Issues New Rule Clamping Down On The Export of PPE During COVID Crisis | Talking Points Memo

As health care workers around the country grapple with shortages in personal protective equipment during the COVID pandemic, the Federal Emergency Management Agency moved Friday to curtail the export of PPE abroad.


This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1302981

Where do you start ?

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FEMA is blocking the export of various classes of PPE – including N95 masks and surgical masks “without explicit approval by FEMA.”

Trans: The bribe window is open.

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The new rule also provides that FEMA has the authority to redistribute scarce supplies of PPE.

The rule does appear to address a scandal that has developed from the Trump administration’s initial response to the COVID pandemic. Trade data compiled by House Democrats and released on Thursday show that the export of medical supplies from the U.S. to China surged in February, with mask exports in particular more than 1,000 percent higher than the monthly average.

And it also seems like the Greedy Covidiot Kushner who is now in charge of the Trump regime Covid Response is cleaning up his mess as the House probes his role in seizing order of Covid medical supplies!

https://www.salon.com/2020/04/09/house-probes-role-of-jared-kushner-as-federal-government-seizesorders-of-covid-19-medical-supplies/

Addendum:
Meanwhile…Covidiot IMPeetus - The BackUp President is tweeting about his effing TV ratings again while people in NY are being buried in mass graves in Hart Island!

How GROTESQUE is that!

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1248620923248205824

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The question remains: What entity is confiscating the PPE that states have purchased at the direction of the federal government?

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Start:
Mr. & Mrs. Birther…

Current:
Mr. Not Responsible & Mrs. BeBest IRDC (I really Don’t Care)

End:
Hopefully…
Mr. Jailed Birther & Mrs. Un-Einstein Visa Birther

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2021 Slovenian homecoming queen

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As of this morning, I am not discounting the likelihood that it’s actually private, organized crime. Joe Pesci will eventually play the out-of-retirement mobster who recognizes and seizes the opportunity. Christian Bale will play Jared.

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Jebus Tapdancing Christ on a Buttered Bagel
“The President” “The First lady”
Right out of a Tom Tomorrow Cartoon
Where’s Sparky?
These people have driven a stake through the heart of satire

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Organized crime would make sense. This is the Trump regime, after all.

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In other words, FEMA will now restrict such lucrative PPE deals to those companies that the Trump KKKlan are invested in.

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Organized crime would make sense. This is the Trump regime, after all.

You have to hire someone who’s already familiar with hijacking and how to distribute contraband to authorized dealerships, of course.
“Only the best people!”

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‘Invested?’ As in put up money?
No, I think you ask too much.
They just have to remember to get their patron’s beak wet when the payments come in.

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The stupid never ends. I can’t imagine how long it will take for the USA to recovery a semblance of respect in the world community after this pandemic is over. America First has never been good policy and never will be.

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Huh? Trump’s KKKlan has tons of investments and I think it’s already been reported that he is, in fact, invested in some of these companies.

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We may never know, but this sounds so plausible. Mob types are geniuses at exploiting any situation that can be transformed into money in their pockets. OTOH, I’m certain the drump crime family are exploiting it also.

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The more the actions of Trump and his minions become known, the more it sounds like the kinds of graft and corruption that used to happen in the days of Tammany Hall, what Al Smith once called “Good clean graft.” Trump is doing this right in our face as if it is just his usual business model (which, unfortunately, it is).

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Ah, trouble is, the House can investigate now, and put people like Kushner under oath to testify. Sooner or later, the truth will out. These clowns are too foolish to understand that, largely because they are too foolish to have mature, knowledgeable people around them to explain to them the facts of life.

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So a day late & a dollar short.

Isn’t 3M the one who exports masks?
Isn’t China the one that makes 80% of PPE, masks, etc.

How are we going to import medical supplies when we won’t export masks?

Just another grifter clusterphuck brought to you by Trump clan.

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