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One month after Trump declared a national emergency, here are 6 major promises the president made that he hasn't fulfilled

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One month after Trump declared a national emergency, here are 6 major promises the president made that he hasn't fulfilled

No at-home COVID-19 testing

No at-home COVID-19 testing

What was said on March 13: Bruce Greenstein, executive vice president of home healthcare company LHC Group, announced at the March 13 press briefing that his company would partner with the federal government to offer at-home testing.

"For Americans that can't get to a test site or live in rural areas far away from a retail establishment, we're here to help and to partner with our hospitals and physicians, as well as the people we have here today that will be doing testing around the country," Greenstein said.

The reality: Greenstein told NPR that the company hasn't yet implemented any in-home testing, but that it would start working with a New Orleans hospital to do so "as soon as next week."

No Google-engineered website for COVID-19 screening

No Google-engineered website for COVID-19 screening

What Trump said on March 13: "Google is helping to develop a website. It's going to be very quickly done, unlike websites of the past, to determine whether a test is warranted and to facilitate testing at a nearby convenient location ... Google has 1,700 engineers working on this right now. They've made tremendous progress."

The reality: Just hours after Trump claimed that Google was building a website to help Americans determine whether they need to be tested and then direct them to the closest testing site, Google issued a statement saying this was not true.

Instead, a pilot website only for California was developed by Verily, a company owned by Google's parent company, Alphabet. The website, Project Baseline, is now only available to people who live in five counties in California.

At the same time, health-insurance company Oscar Health, which is closely tied to Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner, built a website designed to do what Trump promised the Google site would do. Kushner's brother, Josh Kushner, is a co-founder and investor in Oscar, which prompted legal experts to point out that the project might violate ethics laws.

The Oscar project was later shut down.

No new oil for the US strategic reserve

No new oil for the US strategic reserve

What Trump said on March 13: "Based on the price of oil, I've also instructed the Secretary of Energy to purchase, at a very good price, large quantities of crude oil for storage in the U.S. Strategic Reserve. We're going to fill it right up to the top, saving the American taxpayer billions and billions of dollars, helping our oil industry."

The reality: Congress is required to sign off on government funding to purchase crude oil, and it has refused to do so.


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