A day after he was unable to deliver specifics at a White House briefing, FEMA Director Pete Gaynor again had no answers during multiple Sunday morning interviews.
FEMA Director Pete Gaynor, appearing on network news broadcasts Sunday morning, was unable to answer questions about when resupplies of desperately-needed protective masks would be available to health-care workers.
“But will the health care systems there be overwhelmed before masks get there?” asked Raddatz. “I know you’ve bene shipping some masks, but these 600 million ordered are very important and critical at this point. Will they get them in time before the health system is overwhelmed?” “My focus is today,” said Gaynor. “Filling all the demands that are in the queue. Filling the demands that we get today, tomorrow and through the next month that we connect the supply with the demand and meet that need.”
“The inability of the federal government to give a number in terms of masks alarms people" said Tapper, adding, “It makes people concerned that there aren’t masks going out the door. I’m not saying that that’s the case, but without a number, that doesn’t fill people with confidence.” “When will the masks start coming in?” asked Trump when Gaynor responded to a question about specifics by describing the process of the supply chain. “They’re out there now,” Gaynor said.
FEMA administrator Pete Gaynor says Pres. Trump hasn’t enforced the Defense Production Act to order companies to manufacture masks, ventilators and other critical supplies because companies are donating equipment. “It’s happening without using that lever.” #CNNSOTU pic.twitter.com/2KYfE4ccHw"Sooner than weeks, it's going to be days, I would hope. We're going to try to make it days to the best possible way that we can," Dr.
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