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发帖数: 32 | 1 特朗普：政府不是货运员 物资紧缺各州长自己解决
“我们又不是货运员”，美国《政客》新闻网站19日报道称，新冠肺炎疫情正在美国快
速蔓延，面对多个州呼吁联邦政府加强干预、提供抗疫物资援助，美国总统特朗普在白
宫当天新闻发布会上回应：联邦政府“不是货运员”，不应该购买大量物品然后负责运
送。同时他让州长们自己承担起责任，获得抗疫所需的关键设备。
当地时间19日，白宫举行新冠肺炎疫情特别工作组例行新闻发布会。报道称，特朗普为
他有关《国防生产法案》的决定进行了辩护。据媒体此前报道，特朗普18日曾宣布将启
动《国防生产法案》以增加紧急医疗用品的生产，但该法案实际并未启动。
“州长们应该做很多这样的工作，他们正在做很多这样的工作，”特朗普在19日的新闻
发布会上说，“联邦政府不应该购买大量物品，然后运送。你知道，我们又不是货运员
。”
《政客》表示，特朗普的言论相当于是在谴责州长们最近的呼声。
新冠肺炎疫情正在美国迅速蔓延，美国多州州长呼吁联邦政府加强干预，他们表示，如
果医院病床、口罩和其他必需品的供应不能快速而大幅地增加，当地卫生保健系统将很
快陷入瘫痪。
特朗普当天还表示，联邦政府将“尽我们所能（为州）提供帮助”，但他补充说，紧急
物资的采购“实际上是为了地方政府、州长和本州人民，同时取决于他们如何‘分配物
资’。他们会这么做，而且做得很好。”
不过，报道也表示，美国政府还是采取了一些措施。特朗普在18日宣布，将派遣美国海
军两艘各配备了1000张床位的医疗船，开赴纽约港和西海岸，旨在缓解当地医院的医疗
压力。
本周，五角大楼方面也采取了措施，包括从不同医疗单位调派1000张病床，从储备中调
拨500万支口罩和其他个人防护设备等。17日，副总统彭斯还在呼吁，建筑公司向当地
医院捐赠N95口罩库存，并停止购买新的口罩。
但据美国有线电视新闻网（CNN）报道，特朗普与多州州长19日就新冠肺炎举行的一场
视频会议上，当州长们反馈医用物资及检测设备匮乏等情况时，特朗普建议各州自己解
决物资问题。 | q****5
发帖数: 1660 | 2 you are on you own. god bless you | S*********e
发帖数: 4 | 3 1:07 p.m. ET, March 20, 2020
Pompeo says US will "use all the tools we can" to get US citizens abroad
home
From CNN's Betsy Klein
12:55 p.m. ET, March 20, 2020
Vice President Pence says more masks and ventilators coming
From CNN's Sarah Westwood
12:54 p.m. ET, March 20, 2020
Trump now says federal government will send "millions of masks" to states
【在 f********g 的大作中提到】
: 特朗普：政府不是货运员 物资紧缺各州长自己解决
: “我们又不是货运员”，美国《政客》新闻网站19日报道称，新冠肺炎疫情正在美国快
: 速蔓延，面对多个州呼吁联邦政府加强干预、提供抗疫物资援助，美国总统特朗普在白
: 宫当天新闻发布会上回应：联邦政府“不是货运员”，不应该购买大量物品然后负责运
: 送。同时他让州长们自己承担起责任，获得抗疫所需的关键设备。
: 当地时间19日，白宫举行新冠肺炎疫情特别工作组例行新闻发布会。报道称，特朗普为
: 他有关《国防生产法案》的决定进行了辩护。据媒体此前报道，特朗普18日曾宣布将启
: 动《国防生产法案》以增加紧急医疗用品的生产，但该法案实际并未启动。
: “州长们应该做很多这样的工作，他们正在做很多这样的工作，”特朗普在19日的新闻
: 发布会上说，“联邦政府不应该购买大量物品，然后运送。你知道，我们又不是货运员
| S*********e
发帖数: 4 | 4 两位共产五毛又开始工作了
【在 q****5 的大作中提到】
: you are on you own. god bless you
| f********g
发帖数: 32 | 5 丹姐最擅长spin
【在 S*********e 的大作中提到】
: 1:07 p.m. ET, March 20, 2020
: Pompeo says US will "use all the tools we can" to get US citizens abroad
: home
: From CNN's Betsy Klein
: 12:55 p.m. ET, March 20, 2020
: Vice President Pence says more masks and ventilators coming
: From CNN's Sarah Westwood
: 12:54 p.m. ET, March 20, 2020
: Trump now says federal government will send "millions of masks" to states
| f********g
发帖数: 32 | 6 https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/03/trump-coronavirus-governors-
hospitals-ventilators-respirators.html
Trump: State and Local Governments, Not Him, Have to Solve Coronavirus
Shortages
By Jonathan Chait
President Donald “Not My Fault” Trump Photo: Evan Vucci/AP/Shutterstock
American hospitals are sitting on the precipice of a catastrophe. A deluge
of coronavirus patients is about to overwhelm their supply of beds,
protective equipment, and ventilator machines. President Trump has been
asked about the crisis for several days on end, and his answers have focused
almost entirely on deflecting blame away from himself without proffering
any solution.
The pattern held again at his Thursday press conference. Trump argued the
pandemic was a completely unforeseeable event. “No one in their wildest
dreams thought we’d need tens of thousands of ventilators,” he proclaimed.
Many people thought this. Trump’s own government studied the issue and
warned this past fall that it was unprepared for a pandemic. The
vulnerabilities cited in the report included an acute shortage of
ventilators. In recent weeks, news reports have highlighted the ventilator
shortfall in increasingly urgent terms. More than three weeks ago, Health
and Human Services secretary Alex Azar testified that hospitals lacked
enough ventilators and other equipment to handle the coronavirus.
Hospitals and congressional Democrats have been pleading with Trump to use
the Defense Production Act to commandeer industrial resources to crank out
more equipment. Asked about this again, Trump shifted the responsibility
onto state and local governments:
“Governors are supposed to be doing a lot of this work … the federal
government is not supposed to be out there buying vast amounts of items and
then shipping. We’re not a shipping clerk. As with testing — the governors
are supposed to be doing it … but this is really for the local governments
, governors, and people within the state, depending on the way they divided
it up.
“Governors are supposed to get it. States are supposed to get it. For years
, they bought ’em — and now, all of a sudden, they’re coming to the
federal government.”
It is absolutely astonishing that Trump believes state and local governments
should have primary responsibility for handling a national pandemic. Those
governments lack the bargaining power and national scale to take control of
industrial processes that lie outside their borders.
How is a governor of Ohio or New Mexico supposed to get a manufacturer in,
say, California to start producing medical equipment? And how are these
governors supposed to allocate the equipment that is produced? Even if they
somehow could pull this off, state and local governments are plunging into a
budgetary crisis that will get worse because they are required to balance
their budgets. The federal government can borrow money in a downturn. State
governments cannot.
Most amazingly, Trump continued to treat the shortage of ventilators as a
future possible contingency. “If we find we will need something, we’ll do
it,” he promised. This is staggering. Producing sophisticated equipment
takes a long time — weeks or months, under the best circumstances. Trump
needed to start ramping up production in January or February, when the
pandemic started and experts were warning about shortages. Starting a crash
program now is horrifically tardy. He’s not even rushing to ramp up
production yet. | q****5
发帖数: 1660 | 7 Pence did not mention where those masks come?
【在 S*********e 的大作中提到】
: 1:07 p.m. ET, March 20, 2020
: Pompeo says US will "use all the tools we can" to get US citizens abroad
: home
: From CNN's Betsy Klein
: 12:55 p.m. ET, March 20, 2020
: Vice President Pence says more masks and ventilators coming
: From CNN's Sarah Westwood
: 12:54 p.m. ET, March 20, 2020
: Trump now says federal government will send "millions of masks" to states
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