Trump Admin Tries To Narrow Stockpile’s Role For States

LOADING ERROR LOADING WASHINGTON — The Trump administration has abruptly changed its description of the Strategic National Stockpile and put forward a narrower vision of the role the federal government’s repository of life-saving medicines and equipment should play in supplying states’ needs. But it conforms with President Donald Trump’s insistence that the stockpile is only a short-term backup for states, not a commitment to ensure supplies get quickly to those who need them most during an emergency, the latest front in a concerted White House effort to try to put the onus for battling the crisis on the states, with Washington meant to play more of a supporting role. It’s not supposed to be states’ stockpiles that they then use.” And asked what Kushner meant by “our stockpile,” Trump snapped at a reporter, “You know what our means: United States of America.our. “When state, local, tribal, and territorial responders request federal assistance to support their response efforts, the stockpile ensures that the right medicines and supplies get to those who need them most during an emergency.” But the changed version available Friday morning said the stockpile’s “role is to supplement state and local supplies during public health emergencies.