Behind the scenes, Kushner takes charge of coronavirus response
I think we're fooked. Has he been successful at anything besides grifting?
Behind the scenes, Kushner takes charge of coronavirus response
Trump’s son-in-law sets up shop at FEMA as his portfolio balloons to include manufacturing, supplies and long-term planning.
By ADAM CANCRYN and DAN DIAMOND
04/01/2020 07:55 PM EDT
Dozens of Trump administration officials have trooped to the White House podium over the last two months to brief the public on their effort to combat coronavirus, but one person who hasn't -- Jared Kushner -- has emerged as perhaps the most pivotal figure in the national fight against the fast-growing pandemic.
What started two-and-a-half weeks ago as an effort to utilize the private sector to fix early testing failures has become an all-encompassing portfolio for Kushner, who, alongside a kitchen cabinet of outside experts including his former roommate and a suite of McKinsey consultants, has taken charge of the most important challenges facing the federal government: Expanding test access, ramping up industry production of needed medical supplies, and figuring out how to get those supplies to key locations.
Kushner has even obtained a new center of power at the Federal Emergency Management Agency, the crisis-response organization that's taken over coronavirus strategy and planning -- and where Kushner and his deputies ride herd on the health agencies that had been criticized for their slow responses to the pandemic earlier this year.
Kushner’s group, which some have characterized as an “all-of-private-sector” operation in contrast to Vice President Mike Pence’s “all-of-government” task force, has had its successes – including airlifting emergency medical supplies to the United States, crowdsourcing mask and glove donations, and rapidly devising a last-ditch plan for hospitals to maximize ventilators.
But the behind-the-scenes working group has also duplicated existing federal teams and operations, and its focus on rapid, short-term decisions has created concern among some health-agency officials, according to interviews with 11 people involved in Kushner’s effort, including senior government officials, outside advisers and volunteers on the projects, as well as other health department and White House officials.
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peas in a pod. I got to the point where I almost hoped Kushner was smarter, but that's never been the case. He just keeps his mouth shut.
And hey you! 
I hope you are well.
Sheltering in place has slowed me down but that's not a bad thing for me. Getting more sleep.
8 cases in our small, rural parish. Went from 1 to 8 in a week. Probably more. Only 1 hospital in the parish for about 50k people - made up of 2 cities, 3 towns, and 2 villages. 802 people in my village.
