"It is fantastic to have a partner in the White House," Jay Timmons, president and CEO of the National Association of Manufacturers, told CNN Business. "We felt like we were fighting this fight, frankly, all alone for the last year." NAM, which represents more than 130,000 manufacturers, announced Friday it is planning to partner with the Biden administration to help fight the pandemic. NAM CEO Jay TimmonsTimmons, who said his father died from Covid, criticized the Trump administration's track record on the health crisis. "500,000 Americans have already died because we as a society didn't take the pandemic seriously enough.

Source: CNN February 27, 2021 18:22 UTC