Trump's lie about Obama leaving him an "empty shelf" debunked

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6. Part of Obama's problem was that Mitch McConnell

and John Boehner (yikes, he's not missed) were chiseling away at the funding.

I thought some of the comments toward the end of the OP's article dovetailed nicely with another conversation on DU today about how the US (in addition to GM's efforts) should be manufacturing our own masks.

One of the reasons for the current supply shortage, she said: “We’ve allowed our own national capacity to manufacture things to degrade and in some places go away. And we’ve done that for cost-efficiency sake.”

She later added: “What we need is not a big stockpile. We need a new strategy. We need to use the technologies we have now to create the capacity to respond to something in close to real-time.”

That means being able to “rapidly design and manufacture what we need, when we need it, and the quantities demanded,” she said.

Will you look at that: jobs! Just as there was no effort to restock, no one in the current WH will get near any responsible or workable plan for this though.