On Friday March 13, 2020 (US time) President Donald Trump declared a “National Emergency [6] “to combat the coronavirus pandemic, freeing up $50 billion in federal funding” and enacting emergency powers. [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
Two national emergency declarations were made on March 13, one under the Stafford Act and other under the National Emergencies Act (NEA)
Brownstone Reports:
- As of March 13, 2020 the National Security Council (NSC) was officially in charge of the US government’s Covid policy…”this occurred because of two critical features of the response: 1) the belief that this virus came from a lab leak, and 2) the vaccine was the biosecurity countermeasure pushed by the same people as the fix”
- Starting on March 18, 2020, The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), under the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), was officially in charge of the US government’s Covid response.
White House Coronoavirus Task Force Coordinator (set up Jan 2020), was not a representative of the public health agencies but, rather, was appointed by the National Security Council.