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JUST IN: Federal authorities say they'll detain overseas shipments of personal protective equipment used by health workers to prevent domestic brokers and distributors from diverting these “critical medical resources” outside the U.S.
CBP will detain shipments of surgical masks, respirators and surgical gloves, while FEMA determines whether those supplies should be returned or purchased for use in the U.S. or whether they should be allowed to be exported.
This is pursuant to an executive order President Trump signed on Friday.
The White House and FEMA have faced fierce criticism from some governors and others for not doing more, faster to get critical supplies into the hands of frontline medical workers.https://trib.al/lM9qCmd
This should have happened 2 months ago
You know.... MONEY.... ALWAYS the fricking MONEY. *ugh*
And then keep it so "the right people" profit, no doubt.
does this include personal quantities those of us living/working in other countries bought for personal use? I currently have a box held up at Miami airport by USPS, been there for a while now
Or they’ll just send them to red states ...
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