Another corrupt inspector general, why to hell would they start investigating now, the crisis is not even over, damn Dems, May they burn in hell. And when did the investigate Obama’s handling if the H1N1 flu

Names to digg in below

HHS inspector general investigating Trump administration response to coronavirus outbreak

A spokesperson for the HHS inspector general told the Washington Examiner that investigators will carry out at least five reviews “related to HHS’s planning and response of the COVID-19 outbreak.” The inquiries will scrutinize issues such as nationwide hospital responses, quarantine procedures, the training and protective gear provided to front-line health workers, nursing home standards amid a disease with an exponentially more deadly effect on the elderly and the already ill, and the ability to care for illegal border crossers and refugees during a public health crisis.

The HHS watchdog will also draw up recommendations for dealing with the coronavirus pandemic.

The investigative effort will be spearheaded by Christi Grimm, the principal deputy inspector general who leads HHS’s watchdog office. The office compromises 1,600 auditors, investigators, lawyers overseeing dozens of programs run by agencies, including the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Administration for Children and Families, the Food and Drug Administration, and the National Institutes of Health — all of which have played a role in the government’s response to the COVID-19 outbreak that has rattled the U.S. health system.

There were more than 454,000 confirmed coronavirus cases around the world as of Wednesday afternoon and at least 20,500 deaths tied to the infection, according to Johns Hopkins University. In the United States, there have been over 61,000 cases, which have resulted in at least 849 deaths.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/hhs-inspector-general-investigating-trump-administration-response-to-coronavirus-outbreak

Toilets on the Navy's Newest Carriers Clog Frequently; Fixing Them Costs $400K A Flush

Can anyone say boondoggle

The toilets on the Navy's newest aircraft carriers clog frequently, and it costs $400,000 a flush to fix them, according to a new government watchdog report.

During a review of Navy shipbuilding programs by the Government Accountability Office, 150 systemic maintenance problems were identified.

"These problems resulted in more effort and cost for the fleet in sustainment than expected," the GAO said.

One problem mentioned in the report was clogged toilets.

The Navy installed new toilet and sewage systems — ones similar to those on a commercial aircraft but scaled up to support a large crew of more than 4,000 people — on the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS George H.W. Bush (CVN-77) and the newer, first-in-class USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN-78).

These systems reportedly cannot withstand demand without having problems.

"To address unexpected and frequent clogging of the system, the Navy has determined that it needs to acid flush the CVN 77 and 78's sewage system on a regular basis," the GAO found.

Each acid flush costs $400,000, the GAO revealed, citing fleet maintenance officials.

The report explained that the acid flushes are "an unplanned maintenance action for the entire service life of the ship," and it is difficult to calculate sustainment costs given that it is unclear exactly how many times this process will need to be repeated.

Bloomberg News was the first to notice the Navy's costly clogged toilets, which illustrate how ships being delivered can end up costing more to sustain than was anticipated.

"The Navy has delivered warships—such as aircraft carriers, destroyers, and submarines—to its fleet over the past 10 years that require more effort to sustain than initially planned," the GAO said, revealing that it has assessed that the Navy initially underestimated sustainment costs for a handful of shipbuilding programs by $130 billion.

The watchdog noted that while the toilet issue was an excellent example of the problem the Navy faces, "we generally did not include these types of ongoing costs in our calculation."

https://www.military.com/daily-news/2020/03/24/toilets-navys-newest-carriers-clog-frequently-fixing-them-costs-400k-flush.html

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No shit, they’re not including the calculation for upkeep? Wtf us wrong with them. I like the way they put it, “they system cannot keep up with the demand”, you know the demand of 4,000 sailors shitting two or more times a day. Idiots really

SecDef Offers Sparse Details on American Woman Recovered in Secretive Military Op

The U.S. military conducted an operation to bring home an American woman who had been the victim of a violent crime in Honduras, Defense Secretary Mark Esper said Monday.

Esper was deliberately vague on the details, but said, "We had a young lady, a young American, who was the victim of a violent crime in Honduras, I believe. She has been returned to the United States."

He did not say when or how the woman was brought out safely from Honduras, which has closed its borders during the novel coronavirus pandemic.

"Out of respect for her and her family, for her privacy, we'll just leave it at that," Esper added at a Pentagon briefing.

He noted that the military last Friday flew home an American women's tackle football team, which had been in Honduras for a competition that was canceled because of the coronavirus threat.

U.S. Southern Command said in a Twitter post that two Air Force C-130 Hercules aircraft returned the football team to Joint Base Charleston, South Carolina, but it was unclear whether the crime victim was on one of those flights.

Esper spoke a day after President Donald Trump at a White House news conference said the woman had been "horribly treated" and appeared to indicate that a dramatic rescue may have been involved in her return to the U.S.

"We were able to get a young woman released from a certain area who was being horribly accosted, horribly treated," the president added.

Trump said that Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Mark Milley "took care of it. We went in and we got her out, but that was rough stuff." He thanked Milley "and all the people involved and people who went in to get her," but did not say whether the woman had been held hostage.

Following the late Sunday White House news conference, Pentagon officials and Milley's office declined comment and referred questions to the White House.

The return of the woman and the football team underline the plight of thousands of American tourists and students who have been stranded overseas by the closing of borders by the U.S. and other countries hit by the outbreak.

Some of the stranded citizens have posted Facebook pages such as "Americans Stuck in Peru" and "American Citizens Stranded In Guatemala."

On Sunday, the State Department said that two flights had been chartered to bring Americans out of Guatemala and could possibly arrive Monday.

https://www.military.com/daily-news/2020/03/23/secdef-offers-sparse-details-american-woman-recovered-secretive-military-op.html