Trump administration changes description of national stockpile Published on April 04, 2020 at 05:32AM by Aaron Blake, The Washington Post The Trump administration on Friday changed its description of the Strategic National Stockpile on a government website after journalists noted that it contradicted a claim Jared Kushner had made about the program. Kushner on Thursday evening offered a novel argument about the national stockpile. He said some states still had stockpiles that they hadn't been employing for the coronavirus outbreak and that localities should go to them first. And then he suggested that the national stockpile wasn't even meant for them. "And the notion of the federal stockpile was it's supposed to be our stockpile," Kushner said. "It's not supposed to be states' stockpiles that they then use." As reporters quickly noted, that didn't match with how the Department of Health and Human Services was describing the program. On i