Maybe the fed could have raised their hand when Cuomo was looking for ventilators?
Nothing really offered, the states had to beg for help. Especially the 'blue' states.
Only when something was made public did the feds begrudgingly give help.
We all lived through this last year. Is there no memory on how this actually unfolded?
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/07/trumps-war-on-blue-states-is-worse-than-previously-thought.htmlthe early response from the Trump administration was defined by a catastrophic mix of ambivalence and incompetence. “Respirators, ventilators, all of the equipment — try getting it yourselves,” President Trump said on a March 16 conference call with the nation’s governors, abdicating federal responsibility and sparking a bidding war among the states for limited hospital supplies.