Sen. Bernie Sanders wants to provide free face masks to all Americans

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• Sen. Bernie Sanders is spearheading a proposal aimed at providing free face masks to all Americans.
• The Masks for All Act allocates $5 billion for domestic manufacturing, procurement, and mask distribution to households via the US Postal Service.
• It also requires the federal government to use available authorities, like the Defense Production Act, to manufacture masks.
• Democrats have slammed the Trump administration for having not activating the Defense Protection Act sooner to replenish the national stockpile amid reports of face masks shortages in hospitals across the country.
• "We are the only high-income country in the world where infections and deaths are skyrocketing instead of falling," Sanders said in a Tuesday statement.
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Sen. Bernie Sanders is leading the charge alongside dozens of other lawmakers in a bill aimed to provide face masks to all Americans at no cost.

The act, known as the Masks for All Act, proposes requiring the federal government to use available authorities, like the Defense Production Act, to manufacture and procure masks. It allocates $5 billion for domestic manufacturing, procurement, and mask distribution to households via the US Postal Service.

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