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Here's a quote from a story on BNN.
https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/trump-administration-dips-into-protective-gear-cdc-funds-to-fund-vaccine-push-1.1498085
"The Trump administration has shifted billions of dollars previously allocated to public-health programs into its Operation Warp Speed vaccine push, reflecting the U.S. government’s increasing focus on a medical solution to ease the COVID-19 pandemic.
The transfers, disclosed in a government audit, reported by Bloomberg News and described by congressional aides, have grown the budget of the Warp Speed program to as large as US$18 billion, much larger than the US$10 billion figure the administration has routinely cited in public.
One of the biggest transfers came in August, with US$6 billion pulled from US$16.7 billion that had been allocated to the U.S. Strategic National Stockpile, which buys, holds and distributes crucial medical supplies in times of national crisis. The money had originally been meant to replenish stocks of medical protective gear, ventilators, and COVID-19 testing supplies, all of which have experienced shortages at points during the pandemic.
The transfer, disclosed in a footnote buried on page 135 of a Government Accountability Office report this month about the U.S. response to the pandemic, came after Health and Human Services officials said that they had been unable to spend about US$1 billion of the money allocated for the stockpile.
The same GAO report found that shortages of personal protective equipment persist, even as the stockpile has purchased hundreds of millions in supplies. Concerns from nurses spurred the Trump administration to release millions of masks from the stockpile, but health-care workers say they still don’t have enough, particularly of N95 respirators.'