White House trade adviser Navarro is refusing to testify before a House subcommittee about a cancelled contract for ventilators that Democrats say would have wasted more than $500M.
that President Donald Trump intentionally downplayed the coronavirus in the early months of the pandemic.
Krishnamoorthi said that the contract with company Philips Respironics would have wasted $504 million. He said the hearing, which was set for Wednesday, is now cancelled. Michael Purpura, deputy counsel to the president, wrote in a letter to Krishnamoorthi last week stating that the White House declines the invitation to make Navarro available for testimony because"in accordance with long-standing Executive Branch precedent presidential advisers generally do not testify in Congress."
Last week, Krishnamoorthi said in an interview on MSNBC that Navarro"botched" the contract with Philips and lawmakers want to know"what else is out there in terms of wasteful spending in other pandemic procurement efforts." HHS cancelled some of these ventilator contracts at the beginning of September, announcing in a statement that the national stockpile had reached its maximum capacity for ventilators, with nearly 120,000 available for deployment.
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