It provides major new funding and it also lifts some of the limits. I mean, one of the things we're finding about this crisis is one of the things it reveals is that We are way too dependent for our pharmaceuticals, for our medical supplies, and a lot of other stuff on other countries, and I'm sorry to say on China in particular. and that's a longer term project that we have to fix and we cannot allow ourselves to be so dependent any longer and vulnerable as we are now and have been during this crisis because of our supply chain dependency. (08:42–08:52)
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Asserts that the U.S. is overly dependent on other countries, especially China, for pharmaceuticals and medical supplies.
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