In January, or 37 lifetimes ago in Trump years, Elizabeth Warren released a plan to address the novel coronavirus that had already engulfed China and was spreading around the world. Among other things, the then Democratic candidate called for increased funding for agencies like the Department of Health and Human Services and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; ensuring that hospitals had adequate levels of necessary equipment; and partnering with foreign governments and multilateral organizations. Weirdly, nowhere in Warren’s plan did she call for misleading the public about the threat of the disease; distributing supplies only to states that sufficiently kissed her ass; delaying stimulus checks so her name could be printed on them; using briefings to brag about what a great job she’d done; or empowering her son-in-law to prioritize aid as he, in his estimable opinion, saw fit. Of course, such approaches feature heavily in Donald Trump’s shambolic response to the coronavirus crisis, leading Warren and other lawmakers to demand investigations into the administration’s handling of COVID-19.

In a letter to the inspector generals at Homeland Security and HHS—watchdogs Trump has not yet gotten around to firing—Warren and nine other Democratic senators write that the “slow distribution of supplies,” including personal protective equipment (PPE) and ventilators, along with an astonishing lack of transparency, “suggest a process plagued by confusion, inconsistency, and potential political interference.” For instance, Massachusetts, one of the first states hit by the coronavirus, has received “only a fraction of its request for PPE and other medical supplies” from the Strategic National Stockpile (SNS) while Florida was able to obtain 100% of the supplies it asked for within three days of doing so, as well as the full quantity of a follow-up order. How did such a discrepancy come to pass? Warren and company have an idea!