Jared Kushner has added another layer of confusion to the COVID19 response, taking credit for changes already in progress & failing to deliver on promised improvements.https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/02/us/politics/jared-kushner-coronavirus-trump.html …
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“There is...comms failure b/t FEMA & the WH,” said Rep Bennie Thompson, Chm of the Homeland Security Cmte. “FEMA was...to provide lgx support & the WH should let them do their work. There is no reason for Jared or any other inexperienced person to be getting in the way of that.”
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Mr. Kushner has embedded dozens of political appointees and recruits from the private sector in critical spots like FEMA. His “impact team,” as he calls it, has been nicknamed the Slim Suit Crowd for its sartorial preferences by khaki-wearing FEMA veterans.
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A sr official says the Kushner team is a “frat party” that came from a UFO & invaded the fed gov’t. They demonstrate a lax attitude to policy discussions, even using http://FreeConferenceCall.com for high-level meetings. Others used personal email accounts in delicate policy exchanges.
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Kushner shares Trump’s view that governors are driving their residents into a panic by airing worst-case projections of medi needs. Kushner has stressed what he considers his own abilities, saying that he has figured out how to make the government effective.
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