From Cheddar:
For the first time in this crisis, a federal official went before Congress and publicly accused the Trump administration of bungling the coronavirus response so badly that “lives were lost” as a result. Dr. Rick Bright, who was pushed out of his job leading a major scientific research agency, testified that the White House ignored warnings of a mask shortage and politicized the efforts to find a covid-19 treatment. President Trump dismissed Bright as a “disgruntled employee.”