These comments by our Very Stable Genius echo ones famously made by fellow son of a billionaire and self-made moron, Jared Kushner, during the Genius’s first term.   “You can’t do it on a federal.”

At an Easter lunch reception yesterday, Trump echoed this argument [Goldwater’s states’ rights and federal government is only for military protection position] precisely. “I said to [Office of Management and Budget director] Russell [Vought], ‘Don’t send any money for daycare because the United States can’t take care of daycare,’” he said. “That has to be up to a state. We can’t take care of daycare. We’re a big country. We have fifty states, we have all these other people. We’re fighting wars. We can’t take care of daycare. You gotta let a state take care of daycare, and they should pay for it, too. They should pay. They’ll have to raise their taxes, but they should pay for it. And we could lower our taxes a little bit to them to make up, but we, it’s not possible for us to take care of daycare. Medicaid, Medicare, all these individual things, they can do it on a state basis. You can’t do it on a federal. We have to take care of one thing, military protection.” source

Here’s part of Jared’s snitty real-time response to a national lack of Covid protective gear for healthcare workers, while he served, with no qualifications whatsoever, as the Covid Czar.

At Thursday’s briefing on how the government is responding, Trump’s senior adviser and son-in-law Jared Kushner scolded states for not building up their own stockpiles, saying that the “the notion of the federal stockpile was it’s supposed to be our stockpile, it’s not supposed to be states’ stockpiles that they then use.” source