Claim: Says President Barack Obama "signed the medical appliance tax bill that forced companies to outsource manufacturing of masks, gowns, gloves and ventilaors  to China, Europe and Russia to avoid the tax."
Fact-check: Obama-era device tax not behind PPE shortage
Verdict: pants-fire
Organisation: PolitiFact
Author: Victoria Knight
Date published: 2020-05-01T00:00:00