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<blockquote data-quote="fishtm2001" data-source="post: 4535831" data-attributes="member: 54375">In 2018, under the direction of the Trump administration, <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/federal-government-spent-millions-to-ramp-up-mask-readiness-but-that-isnt-helping-now/2020/04/03/d62dda5c-74fa-11ea-a9bd-9f8b593300d0_story.html" target="_blank">HHS defunded the&nbsp; project</a> (,<a href="https://www.phe.gov/Preparedness/news/Pages/n95.aspx" target="_blank">https://www.phe.gov/Preparedness/news/Pages/n95.aspx</a> )after being presented a viable design for such a machine. The project appears to have been swallowed up by a bureaucracy that saw little reward in furthering a pet project from the previous administration. HHS told the <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/federal-government-spent-millions-to-ramp-up-mask-readiness-but-that-isnt-helping-now/2020/04/03/d62dda5c-74fa-11ea-a9bd-9f8b593300d0_story.html" target="_blank">Washington Post</a> it lacked the budget to build a prototype.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="fishtm2001, post: 4535831, member: 54375"] In 2018, under the direction of the Trump administration, [URL='https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/federal-government-spent-millions-to-ramp-up-mask-readiness-but-that-isnt-helping-now/2020/04/03/d62dda5c-74fa-11ea-a9bd-9f8b593300d0_story.html']HHS defunded the project[/URL] (,[URL]https://www.phe.gov/Preparedness/news/Pages/n95.aspx[/URL] )after being presented a viable design for such a machine. The project appears to have been swallowed up by a bureaucracy that saw little reward in furthering a pet project from the previous administration. HHS told the [URL='https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/federal-government-spent-millions-to-ramp-up-mask-readiness-but-that-isnt-helping-now/2020/04/03/d62dda5c-74fa-11ea-a9bd-9f8b593300d0_story.html'][I]Washington Post[/I][/URL] it lacked the budget to build a prototype. [/QUOTE]

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