Mary Wilson
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By AARON GREGG, YEGANEH TORBATI | The Washington Post | Published: September 22, 2020
WASHINGTON — A $1 billion fund Congress gave the Pentagon in March to build up the country's supplies of medical equipment has instead been mostly funneled to defense contractors and used for making things such as jet engine parts, body armor and dress uniforms.
The change illustrates how one taxpayer-backed effort to battle the novel coronavirus, which has killed roughly 200,000 Americans, was instead diverted toward patching up long-standing perceived gaps in military supplies.
https://www.stripes.com/news/us/pen...make-jet-engine-parts-and-body-armor-1.645989
WASHINGTON — A $1 billion fund Congress gave the Pentagon in March to build up the country's supplies of medical equipment has instead been mostly funneled to defense contractors and used for making things such as jet engine parts, body armor and dress uniforms.
The change illustrates how one taxpayer-backed effort to battle the novel coronavirus, which has killed roughly 200,000 Americans, was instead diverted toward patching up long-standing perceived gaps in military supplies.
https://www.stripes.com/news/us/pen...make-jet-engine-parts-and-body-armor-1.645989