ALLENTOWN (US) : President Donald Trump said Thursday that he intends to prepare the country for future pandemics by restocking the national stockpile and bringing critical manufacturing back to the US.
His comments came the same day a whistleblower testified that the Trump administration had failed to properly prepare for the current pandemic. “Wouldn't that be nice?" Trump said during a visit to a Pennsylvania distributor of medical equipment. “My goal is to produce everything America needs for ourselves and then export to the world, including medicines." Trump had complained about supply chains in a television interview that aired before he left Washington for the trip to Owens and Minor Inc.