Governors working on multi-state consortium to secure supplies

Governors working on multi-state consortium to secure supplies

By Kristen Holmes, CNN White House Correspondent

Updated 10:56 AM ET, Thu April 9, 2020

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cnn.com/cnn/2020/04/09/politics/governors-supply-chain/index.html

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Washington (CNN)As states continue to battle one another and the federal government for critically needed medical supplies, governors across the country are discussing a multi-state consortium that would increase their purchasing power, cut the competition and quickly get supplies to the areas most in need.

In a Wednesday press conference, Andrew Cuomo, governor of New York and vice-chair of the National Governor's Association, told reporters there were talks of states banding together if the federal government continued to resist taking control of the supply chain.

Cuomo called a consortium an "Option B," stressing that the federal government's involvement in purchasing and disseminating supplies was still the preferred choice.

States are burning through medical supplies and struggling to find more

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