US Cases: 2,455,351
US Deaths: 118,650
Worldwide Cases: 9,777,889
Worldwide Deaths: 493,609
Another day, another detailed report about Trump's incompetence. This one comes from the GAO, which is a legislative office and thus not subject to Trump's strongarm tactics. And the results are sadly unsurprising:
The report also found that because of an interpretation of the law Treasury was operating under, they did not use death records to ensure that the direct payment checks were going to people who filed taxes in 2019 and were still living. Therefore according to the report, the IRS paid out $1.4 billion in payments to descendants.
The report laid out that the Strategic National Stockpile was not equipped to handle the demand generated by states and localities in need of personal protective equipment, ventilators and other critical medical supplies.
According to officials from the Offices of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response who were interviewed by GAO "the Strategic National Stockpile did not have the capacity to provide states with supplies at the scale necessary to respond to a nationwide event such as the COVID-19 pandemic."
Of course, this report is rightly getting buried by the revelation that Russia offered the Taliban bounties for killing U.S. troops in Afghanistan.
And Trump has known about it for at least the past 3 months. During which time, he has invited Putin to meet with the G7 nations and proposed to withdraw one-third of U.S. troops from Germany.
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