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The Trump Administration Is Supporting the People of Connecticut
Updated August 17, 2020
“We have the best doctors, the best military leaders, and the best logistics professionals anywhere in the world. And we’re orchestrating a massive Federal response unlike anything our country has ever seen.”
– President Donald J. Trump
Overview: Response and recovery efforts are locally executed, State managed, and Federally supported. Successful emergency management requires nationwide cooperation and unity of effort, combining the strength and ingenuity of our citizens and private sector with a sweeping, all-inclusive, and whole-of-government response. The below is a partial overview of Federal assistance provided to the State of Connecticut and the people of Connecticut to combat the Coronavirus. The information is bolstered by hundreds of additional actions by the Federal government to help the people of Connecticut. President Donald J. Trump and Vice President Mike Pence have appreciated the strong State-Federal partnership with Governor Ned Lamont and other State, local, and Tribal leaders in Connecticut.
The President quickly approved Connecticut’s major disaster declaration on March 28, 2020 and National Guard funding requests on March 30, 2020 providing additional Federal resources to supplement State response efforts.
This year, over 250 K N-95 masks, 960 K surgical & procedural masks, 200 K eye and face shields, 110 K isolation & surgical gowns, and 3.4 M medical gloves have been shipped to Connecticut through private sector, State, and Federal collaboration.
The Federal government has directly supported 8 community based testing sites in Connecticut and will be providing over 400,000 swabs and 400,000 media to support state testing needs in the month of August.
The Federal government coordinated the surge of supplemental personal protective equipment to all Connecticut Medicaid & Medicare certified nursing homes. And to supplement private sector supplies, the federal government is coordinating the provision of point-of-care COVID-19 testing to specified Connecticut Medicaid & Medicare certified nursing homes.
Deployed a Battelle Critical Care Decontamination System to Connecticut that can decontaminate up to 80,000 N-95 masks daily.
Coordinated donation of 352 cases (40 vials per case) of Remdesivir and 43 cases of commercially available Remdesivir to treat hospitalized COVID-19 patients in Connecticut.
Medical facilities and providers in the State of Connecticut have received over $1.5 B in COVID-19 related allocations from HHS. This includes more than $1.2 B from the CARES Act Provider Relief Fund to support healthcare-related expenses or lost revenue attributable to COVID-19 and ensures uninsured Americans can get testing and treatment for COVID-19.
The State of Connecticut and eligible local governments received over $1.3 B from the CARES Act’s Coronavirus Relief Fund (CRF) to help address unforeseen financial needs and risks created by the COVID-19 public health emergency. Tribal governments received over $119.7 M in CRF funding.
The Small Business Administration has issued over $6.7 B in loans to over 60 K Connecticut small businesses.
The U.S. Department of the Treasury has made 1.6 M Economic Impact Payments totaling more than $2.6 B to hardworking taxpayers of Connecticut.
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development has made over $95.1 M in COVID-19 funding available to Connecticut grantees via CARES Act authorizations to help America’s low-income families and most vulnerable citizens.
The U.S. Department of Education provided $141.3 M to support postsecondary education students and institutions of higher education in Connecticut, authorized $27.9 M for the State from the Governor’s Emergency Education Relief Fund, and $111.1 M to ensure learning continues for all elementary and secondary students.
The U.S. Department of Transportation allocated more than $489.1 M to help the Connecticut public transportation systems and $30.3 M to help Connecticut airport.
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