Inspector general report says FEMA's wasted money in COVID emergency efforts to fly in PPE equipment

OIG Finds Failings with Project Airbridge, FEMA’s COVID-19 Response - HS Today OIG said the project’s $238 million may have been better spent on other COVID-19 initiatives. OIG said the project’s $238 million may have been better spent on other COVID-19 initiatives. Kylie Bielby Hstoday

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FEMA established the project under unprecedented pressure to mitigate disruptions in global medical supply chains. The project was intended as a temporary measure to address perceived shortfalls in distributors’ personal protective equipment (PPE) inventories of gloves, gowns, and masks. However, OIG found that the project actually supplemented the distributors’ already large domestic inventories.