CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “I want to remind small-business owners across America that the Paycheck Protection Program is launching tomorrow. Nearly $350 billion in loans will be available to small businesses, including sole proprietors…
Now, as we’ve indicated, we have ventilators in the National Stockpile. We pushed ventilators out. We’re holding ventilators to put to the point of need… By the way, the states should have been building their stockpile. We have almost 10,000 in our stockpile. And we’ve been building it, and we’ve been supplying it. But the states should be building.
We’re a backup. We’re not an ordering clerk.”
-Donald Trump, “Remarks by President Trump, Vice President Pence, and Members of the Coronavirus Task Force in Press Briefing,” whitehouse.gov, Apr. 3, 2020