Hey! Who Took My Stuff?

States and various medical organizations are finding that the critical medical supplies they have ordered and paid for are being "stolen" by the federal government and redirected to often unknown entities.

Hospital and clinic officials in seven states described the seizures in interviews over the past week. The Federal Emergency Management Agency [FEMA] is not publicly reporting the acquisitions, despite the outlay of millions of dollars of taxpayer money, nor has the administration detailed how it decides which supplies to seize and where to reroute them.

Officials who’ve had materials seized also say they’ve received no guidance from the government about how or if they will get access to the supplies they ordered. That has stoked concerns about how public funds are being spent and whether the Trump administration is fairly distributing scarce medical supplies.

Although FEMA has been implicated in the disappearance of the supplies, FEMA claims to know nothing about the situation.  

This is very, very strange. As we’ve reported on the seemingly ubiquitous seizures and reroutings of purchases of medical supplies, FEMA has always appeared to be at the heart of it, even though the targeted buyers are seldom given much information about who took their supplies. But now FEMA is denying that it is requisitioning or confiscating supplies anywhere within the United States, except in cases where they suspect criminal activity.

So it goes in the Age of Trump.  This is how we deal with disaster.  Chaos.