{"id":22257,"date":"2020-04-05T14:50:25","date_gmt":"2020-04-05T20:50:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.skyhinews.com\/?p=64079"},"modified":"2020-04-05T14:50:25","modified_gmt":"2020-04-05T20:50:25","slug":"either-be-in-or-out-feds-swooped-in-on-colorados-ventilator-order-polis-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/local-news\/either-be-in-or-out-feds-swooped-in-on-colorados-ventilator-order-polis-says\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cEither be in or out\u201d: Feds swooped in on Colorado\u2019s ventilator order, Polis says"},"content":{"rendered":"
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DENVER, CO – MARCH 10: Gov. Jared Polis speaks during a press conference in the Governor’s office at the Colorado Capitol on Tuesday morning, March 10, 2020. <\/strong>
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Colorado was making a deal with a manufacturer for an order of much-needed ventilators when the Federal Emergency Management Agency swooped in and took it themselves, Gov. Jared Polis told CNN<\/a><\/i> on Friday night.<\/p>\n

It was one thing for states to be competing among themselves for vital resources to fight the novel coronavirus, Polis said. Now they\u2019re competing against the federal government, too.<\/p>\n

\u201cEither be in or out,\u201d Polis told CNN\u2019s Don Lemon. \u201cEither you\u2019re buying them and you\u2019re providing them to states and you\u2019re letting us know what we\u2019re going to get and when we\u2019re going to get them. Or you stay out, and let us buy them.\u201d<\/p>\n

Prior to Polis\u2019 comments, CNN reported<\/a><\/i> that Colorado had an order canceled for 500 ventilators, among other supplies, because the items were being bought by FEMA. A congressional source told CNN that Colorado was told it was not on the priority list and the state would have to find its own supplies.<\/p>\n

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