Trump vows to replenish stockpile for future pandemics

&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpcnt">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpa">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<span class&equals;"wpa-about">Advertisements<&sol;span>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"u top&lowbar;amp">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<amp-ad width&equals;"300" height&equals;"265"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; type&equals;"pubmine"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-siteid&equals;"111265417"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-section&equals;"1">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;amp-ad>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div><p>President Donald Trump has vowed to prepare for future pandemics by replenishing the national stockpile and bringing manufacturing of critical supplies and equipment back to the US&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>His comments came the same day a whistleblower told Congress the Trump administration had failed to properly prepare for the current pandemic&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><i>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Wouldn’t that be nice&quest;”<&sol;i> Mr Trump said during a visit to a Pennsylvania distributor of medical equipment&period; <i>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;My goal is to produce everything America needs for ourselves and then export to the world&comma; including medicines&period;”<&sol;i><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Mr Trump had complained about supply chains in a television interview that aired before he left Washington for the trip to Owens and Minor Inc&period; in Allentown&comma; Pennsylvania&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><i>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;These stupid supply chains that are all over the world — we have a supply chain where they’re made in all different parts of the world&comma;”<&sol;i> Mr Trump said in the interview with Fox Business Network&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><i>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;And one little piece of the world goes bad&comma; and the whole thing is messed up&period;”<&sol;i><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><i>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;We should have them all in the United States&period;”<&sol;i><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>It was Mr Trump’s second trip outside Washington in as many weeks as he tries to convince the public it is time for states to begin to open up again&comma; even with the virus still spreading&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Mr Trump’s remarks came as federal whistleblower Rick Bright testified before a House panel on Thursday about his repeated efforts to jump-start US production of respirator masks that he says went nowhere&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>In Pennsylvania&comma; Mr Trump added to the pressure Democratic governor Tom Wolf is under from home-state Republicans to roll back stay-at-home orders and business shutdowns after effectively containing the state’s outbreak early on&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><i>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;We have to get your governor of Pennsylvania to start opening things up a bit&comma;”<&sol;i> Mr Trump said during a speech at the warehouse&period; He claimed some places in the state had been &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;<i>barely affected<&sol;i>”&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The president arrived in Allentown on a campaign-like visit to highlight a US medical equipment distributor that is helping make and ship gowns&comma; gloves and other personal protective gear across the country&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Mr Trump did not wear a face covering as he stepped off Air Force One&period; During the flight&comma; chief of staff Mark Meadows wore a navy blue face mask embossed with the presidential seal in gold&period; Officials wiped down the handrails on the staircase before Trump arrived&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Scores of people lined the motorcade route&period; The crowd grew thicker — with many barefaced — and began to chant &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;USA&excl;” and &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Four more years&excl;” as Mr Trump arrived at the factory&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>After a tour&comma; during which Mr Trump also did not wear a mask&comma; he addressed several dozen employees clad in matching neon yellow company T-shirts&comma; all wearing face masks and sitting with appropriate distance between them&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Mr Trump said he wanted to ensure the next president did not inherit an empty stockpile and would build up a three-month supply of items including ventilators and N95 respirator masks that have been in short supply&period; He said he would like many of these items to be American-made&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Mr Trump repeatedly has complained about inheriting a depleted stockpile from the Obama administration&comma; glossing over the fact he had held office for three years before the coronavirus reached the US&comma; and had ample time to replenish equipment and supplies if doing so had have been a priority&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on Thursday was forced to retract comments he had made earlier in the week about the Obama administration not leaving behind a &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;game plan” for any future pandemics&period; The Obama administration had&comma; in fact&comma; left behind a 69-page pandemic playbook&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><i>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Yeah&comma; I was wrong&comma;”<&sol;i> Mr McConnell said on Fox News&period; <i>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;They did leave behind a plan&comma; so I clearly made a mistake in that regard&period;”<&sol;i><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>As the pandemic took hold in the US and governors desperately sought the federal government’s help attaining supplies and equipment&comma; Mr Trump’s son-in-law and senior advisor&comma; Jared Kushner&comma; sparked outrage by referring to the national stockpile as &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;<i>our stockpile<&sol;i>”&comma; and saying its contents were not meant to be shared with the states&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Some states found themselves competing against&comma; and at times losing to&comma; the federal government in the hunt for supplies&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Mr Trump said he wanted to bring &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;critical” manufacturing back to America and announced he’d signed an executive order to require an obscure federal agency that invests in other countries to begin making similar investments domestically&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><i>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;I’m determined that America will be prepared for any of the future outbreaks&comma;”<&sol;i> Mr Trump said&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div style&equals;"padding-bottom&colon;15px&semi;" class&equals;"wordads-tag" data-slot-type&equals;"belowpost">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div id&equals;"atatags-dynamic-belowpost-68e377f1c46d8">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<script type&equals;"text&sol;javascript">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;window&period;getAdSnippetCallback &equals; 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