De Blasio: There’s U.S. Military Building a Wall at the Southern Border When They Should Be Addressing Coronavirus

Wednesday on “MSNBC Live,” New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio lamented that there is U.S. Military at the country’s southern border with Mexico building a wall during the coronavirus pandemic.

de Blasio said the United States needs the military’s “medical resources,” ‘their logistical know-how” and their help ensuring “food and medicine moves around this country.”

“If the federal government does not get involved quickly, and specifically the United States Military –and I spoke to the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff yesterday, the military has an extraordinary medical capacity, it’s needed in places like New York right now,” the mayor stated. “But it’s quite clear that the administration in Washington has not mobilized the American military. There are American military officers right now still building a wall at the southern border when all they should be doing domestically is addressing coronavirus. We need their medical resources, their logistical know-how, we need them to help ensure that food and medicine moves around this country and our supply chain is not disrupted. Right now, we are in the midst of a crisis we have not seen for generations, Savannah, and yet the American military is being sidelined when they should be given the chance to get in this game and help us all.”

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