Are feds interfering with Phoenix PPE orders?

[saidsimplesimon]

Phoenix Mayor, (D) Kate Gallego, is not alone. Heck of a job, Jared, you have blood on your hands. We will remember your mafia style crime family come November.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/are-feds-interfering-with-phoenix-ppe-orders/ar-BB12ZU4A?ocid=hplocalnews

NBC Channel 12 Arizona
Are feds interfering with Phoenix PPE orders?
Joe Dana
4/21/20
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City of Phoenix chief financial officer Denise Olson tells 12 News the city has not been able to fulfill a PPE order for more than three weeks.

“We’ve had couple situations where the vendor said they could not meet those orders, that they’d been commandeered by the federal government. But then we went and tried to check that, and we don’t know what that means,” Olson said.

Olson says two of those vendors were Minnesota-based Fastenal and the Los Angeles-based Dunn Edwards.

Dunn Edwards denied knowing anything about that claim.

A spokesperson for Fastenal tells 12 News manufacturers of the masks stopped sending them inventory at the direction of the federal government and therefore the company had to cancel its order to the City of Phoenix.
RELATED: Phoenix fire chief: protective gowns getting 'hijacked'
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[Frustratedlady]

1. I wish this could be proved. Whistleblowers, where are you?

If the feds are canceling orders OR hijacking shipments, this should be made public.

I feel sorry for states and/or cities that can't get their orders filled AFTER the feds told them to get their own supplies. Either sh*t or get off the pot, Trump. (Be sure to flush it 15 times, too!)

He is unbelievable.

[Jake Stern]

2. The DPA was written at a time when congress thought it would be used judiciously

They didn't imagine a scenario where a wannabe dictator would use it to seize supplies so he could dish them out as favors.

Going forward before Congress passes laws giving the president authority they should first ask themselves "How could a person like Trump abuse this power?" and then build appropriate safeguards into the bill.