Pathetic. Both Trump and Obama own this failure: Nobody has filled the strategic PPE stockpile since Bush 43 https://hotair.com/archives/jazz-shaw/2020/04/06/nobody-filled-strategic-ppe-stockpile-since-bush-43/">https://hotair.com/archives/...
Fact check:
"We rate this claim TRUE because it is supported by our research. There is no indication that the Obama administration took significant steps to replenish the supply of N95 masks in the Strategic National Stockpile after it was depleted..." https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2020/04/03/fact-check-did-obama-administration-deplete-n-95-mask-stockpile/5114319002/">https://www.usatoday.com/story/new...
"We rate this claim TRUE because it is supported by our research. There is no indication that the Obama administration took significant steps to replenish the supply of N95 masks in the Strategic National Stockpile after it was depleted..." https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2020/04/03/fact-check-did-obama-administration-deplete-n-95-mask-stockpile/5114319002/">https://www.usatoday.com/story/new...
"Obama admin reported used up roughly 75% of N95 respirators and 25% of face masks during the 2009 H1N1 pandemic. The supplies were tapped again during various hurricanes as well as 2014 ebola virus outbreak and the 2016 zika virus event. At no time was the supply replenished."
"But...there’s plenty of blame to go around. George W. Bush kept tapping the supplies during his last three years in office without replenishing them. And Donald Trump had nearly two full years to address the problem after taking office, but he didn’t do it either."