Fall Member Drive Deadline: Friday!

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Hi Reader,

You read ProPublica because you’re looking for stories that haven’t been told — investigations that go much deeper than headlines and soundbites, that provide necessary context and help you understand complexity and nuance in the world. We know these stories often aren’t exactly fun to read. They’re frequently about corruption and injustice. They’re also many times a good bit longer than the usual news story. But as a regular reader of ProPublica, you know that our only mission is to help right the wrongs that we uncover during our investigations.

In March, a ProPublica investigation <[link removed]> uncovered a gross mishandling of government contracting, which likely cost American lives. Here’s what happened. The U.S. government paid millions of dollars to the company Royal Philips N.V. to develop a low-cost ventilator to be stockpiled in case of a pandemic, and when the FDA cleared the new devices last fall, the government ordered 10,000 of them. But early this year, as COVID-19 cases were overwhelming hospitals, Philips hadn’t delivered a single one. Instead, ProPublica found that they were selling a commercial version of the ventilator — manufactured in Pennsylvania — overseas at far higher prices.

Rather than force production of the low-cost ventilators, the White House cut a new deal with Philips for more ventilators, this time agreeing to pay more than four times the original price. As a result of our reporting, a congressional subcommittee investigated the deal, and concluded that “gullible” White House negotiators agreed to pay up to $500 million too much for the ventilators. Just last month, the Trump Administration finally backed out of the deal <[link removed]>.

Impact drives our work and we are only able to produce this kind of deeply-researched, complicated journalism because of readers like you. As a nonprofit newsroom, we rely on donations from individuals for the majority of our funding. Today, I’m asking you to join ProPublica at any amount and become a ProPublican member. <[link removed]>.

Your donation to ProPublica gives us a dependable source of funding, and that matters for an organization like ours — sometimes our investigations can take months, or even years, to fully report. We need folks like you to stand with us.

Our fall member drive wraps up on tomorrow, and I’d love for you to join us before then. Support ProPublica today and help us bring power to account, however long it takes.

Thanks so much, Jill Shepherd Proud ProPublican <[link removed]>

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