Former Vice President Joe Biden is calling on President Trump to appoint a “supply commander” to oversee the distribution of medical supplies during the coronavirus pandemic.
Biden, who is running to unseat Trump in November, argued the president has put in place a faulty system to coordinate the country’s response to the virus, forcing hospitals and states to bid against each other to obtain critical protective gear.
“This public health crisis is foremost a human crisis, but it is also a crisis of supply, logistics and distribution,” Biden said in a statement Saturday. “States, hospitals, and health care providers should not have to bid against one another, or against the federal government to get the supplies that they desperately need.”
The former vice president said that a supply director is needed to ensure the safety of frontline workers combating COVID-19, and unveiled his own plan to send materials to states and territories.
“We need a Supply Commander to step up and take charge and get the doctors, nurses, health care workers, first responders, firefighters, and cops the equipment they need to protect themselves and save lives,” he said.
Trump this week pushed back on calls from Democrats to appoint a czar tasked with overseeing the distribution of medical equipment during the coronavirus crisis.
Senate Democratic Leader Charles Schumer (N.Y.) was among those urging Trump to tap a supply director. The president told him to stop “complaining.”
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Doesn’t Trump already have a supply czar — his idiot son-in-law Jared?
God help us.
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