“Project Air Bridge — like the broader Trump Administration response to the pandemic — has been marked by delays, incompetence, confusion, and secrecy involving multiple Federal agencies and actors,” Sens. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) wrote to the Pandemic Response Accountability Committee on Monday in a letter requesting that the panel initiate an investigation.
Congress created the committee through the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act of 2020, or Cares Act, to enable greater transparency and independent oversight of government spending in response to the pandemic.
In April, Warren and Blumenthal requested information from the six companies involved in the project: Cardinal Health, Concordance Healthcare Solutions, Henry Schein, McKesson, Medline and Owens & Minor.