“After receiving my assurances and hearing about our health system’s urgent needs, the agents let the boxes of equipment be released and loaded into the trucks,” Artenstein writes. “But I was soon shocked to learn that the Department of Homeland Security was still considering redirecting our PPE. Only some quick calls leading to intervention by our congressional representative prevented its seizure.”

To get goddamned face masks to protect his colleagues and the people they are caring for. That's because the Trump administration—and whoever they are grifting with to make gazillions of dollars—have turned the nation's healthcare system in the Hunger Games, with states and hospitals fighting each other to find critical materials. But then they have find a way to keep Trump's people from hijacking those necessary supplies to send to people Trump likes better.

That's on top of the Trump administration swooping in to bid against states trying to obtain the supplies their hospitals need after Trump has told them that they are entirely on their own in procurement. That's driving prices up, and when the states manage to get that equipment at five or ten or whatever times the normal price, the goddamned Trump administration swoops in and poaches it.