Senator Mike BraunGeverifieerd account

The media and Democrats in Congress have been trying to rewrite the history of President Trump's response to the coronavirus pandemic. Let's look at some of the predictions and the actions President @realDonaldTrump took to prevent them from coming true. (1/7)

The media said we’d run out of ventilators. We didn’t, because President @realDonaldTrump seized his authority under the Defense Production Act to ramp up a government and private sector response unprecedented since World War II. (2/7)

They said our hospitals would be overrun. President Trump mobilized the Army Corps of Engineers to rapidly build emergency field hospitals and retrofit convention centers to provide thousands of extra hospital beds. Thankfully, most of them never saw a single patient. (3/7)

Further, President @realDonaldTrump directed his Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services to issue a broad range of temporary regulation waivers and new rules to give the health care system the flexibility to rapidly increase treatment capacity. (4/7)

On March 22, when Gov. Andrew Cuomo said New York would need 110,000 hospital beds based on curve predictions, President Trump deployed the hospital ship USS Comfort to the Hudson River and approved plans to turn the Javits Center into an emergency hospital. (5/7)