Technicians of the General Motors factory repair a ventilator from a hospital amidst the COVID-19 pandemic on May 4, 2020 in Sao Caetano do Sul, Brazil.The U.S.
House Oversight Committee accused the Trump administration of "incompetent negotiating" for ventilators at the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic, saying it "squandered" more than $500 million in taxpayer funds for the essential equipment.
The committee said there was no evidence that the Trump administration tried to negotiate a lower price for the ventilators. "The Trump Administration mismanaged Philips' repeated failures to meet contractual requirements. It gave Philips three additional extensions, the last of which allowed for final delivery of the ventilators to be delayed until June 2021," the report says. "Had the Trump Administration held Philips to the terms of the Obama-era contract, the country would have had 10,000 ventilators that it needed when the coronavirus crisis struck.
The Trilogy Evo Universal and Trilogy Evo appear to be two separate ventilator products. But the committee concluded: "Aside from price, there is no discernible difference in either appearance or functionality between the Trilogy Evo Universal, the Trilogy Evo, and the Trilogy EV300," the report says. "The Trump Administration's efforts constitute over half-a-billion dollars of waste, fraud, or abuse.
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