the Governor of Illinois Jay Pritzker without notifying the White house, organized for the huge amount of medical masks and gloves on Charter planes to get around the administration’s efforts trump to intercept shipments of personal protective equipment (PPE).
according to the newspaper the Chicago Sun-Times, citing sources close to the Governor, the state government spent 888 275 thousand dollars on a Charter flight from Shanghai, carried out the delivery in Chicago of the anti-COVID-19.
the Publication said that the state of Illinois with the start of the pandemic have already spent 174 million dollars for the purchase of ventilators, masks, gowns and disinfectants for the hands. While the details of the transactions were kept secret because the state government knew about previously intercepted by the White house parties, SIZ EN route to the United States.
“supply Chain Commerce resembled the Wild West when as soon as you have acquired the funds, you need to make efforts like a feat of Hercules to hit the state”, – said the press Secretary of the Governor of Illinois Jordan Abadie. According to him, the Board Charter are millions of masks and gloves needed by medical workers.
Pritzker fiercely criticized trump for his strategy in the fight against coronavirus. The American leader, in turn, expressed dissatisfaction with the Governor-a Democrat, saying that he “always complaining”. The Governor of Illinois one of the first in America told about a bitter dispute with the administration of the tramp on the supply of personal protective equipment from abroad, noting that they must go directly to the States, and not “filtered” by the White house.