This week we learned Jared Kushner is helping to direct the federal supply chain for COVID-19 medical equipment.
What are his qualifications? Marrying well.
What exactly is he doing? https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🤷🏻‍♀️" title="Woman shrugging (light skin tone)" aria-label="Emoji: Woman shrugging (light skin tone)"> https://www.politico.com/news/2020/04/01/jared-kushner-coronavirus-response-160553">https://www.politico.com/news/2020...
Instead of leveraging the Defense Production Act so the federal government can work with manufacturers directly to ramp up production of COVID-19 supplies, Jared Kushner called in his former roommate and others in the private sector to sort this out.
The result? "A beautiful day in the Rose Garden" with a handful of corporate executives, all getting good press about Project Airbridge, a public-private effort to get COVID-19 supplies from other countries to here.
Kushner& #39;s efforts have largely operated outside usual rules and restrictions, and they& #39;re relying heavily on personal connections to private industry. Rules regarding conflicts of interest are being disregarded. There& #39;s no transparency or oversight. https://www.politico.com/news/2020/04/01/jared-kushner-coronavirus-response-160553">https://www.politico.com/news/2020...
Kushner has his hands in decision-making at FEMA, the FDA, Medicare, and Medicaid. His brother& #39;s health insurance company (which Jared formerly helped run) has been tapped to create a website directing people to testing locations.
It& #39;s unclear who is making money off all of this (speculation: a whole lot of Trump& #39;s friends and donors), how much money they& #39;re making, or how effective any of this has been, because there& #39;s no transparency.

What we do know is hospitals still don& #39;t have PPE.
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