I’m so disgusted, I’m just going to post some excerpts and recommend you read the gory details for yourself:
Trump plan for coronavirus supplies yields payoff for favored companies
A secretive Trump administration project that enlists private companies to bring masks and other medical equipment to the U.S. to fight the coronavirus outbreak has provided tens of millions of dollars in taxpayer subsidies to the nation’s largest medical-supply companies with little public accounting.
[…] That has saved the companies more than $25 million in shipping costs, savings they are not required to pass on to the medical systems, state governments and others who buy their products. The supply companies’ profits topped $2 billion last year, financial statements show.
[…] The White House has cast Project Air Bridge, which President Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner helped set up, as a bold public-private partnership in a time of crisis. The administration touts the initiative to rebut charges that it has been unprepared to deal with shortages of critical supplies.
Our taxpayer dollars at work… for the favored few.