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The authority to enact such a measure is granted to the president under the Defense Production Act, which was passed during the early years of the Cold War. ... During the COVID-19 pandemic, the ...
Defense Production Act; Long title: An Act to establish a system of priorities and allocations for materials and facilities, authorize the requisitioning thereof, provide financial assistance for expansion of productive capacity and supply, provide for price and wage stabilization, provide for the settlement of labor disputes, strengthen controls over credit, and by these measures facilitate ...
Trump first invoked the Defense Production Act on March 27, more than a week after first saying he would. The administration has said the act will be used to ramp up coronavirus testing, but Trump ...
The vaccine was produced in Europe, but the "fill and finish" process was originally planned to be in the U.S., and thus, there was danger that it would be subject to the Defense Production Act. [205] Eventually, the U.S. reversed course and began exporting vaccines to Mexico, Canada, and Japan by the end of March. [206]
On Thursday, President Biden said he is invoking the Defense Production Act as part of his strategy to combat the spread of the coronavirus that has killed 400,000 Americans. Peter Shulman, a ...
The White House Coronavirus Task Force was the United States Department of State task force during the Trump administration. The goal of the Task Force was to coordinate and oversee the administration's efforts to monitor, prevent, contain, and mitigate the spread of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). [ 1 ]
President Biden issued a raft of executive orders Thursday to drastically expand the federal response to the pandemic and ramp up production of coronavirus vaccines amid shortages of shots in ...
The federal government used the Defense Production Act to get a small number of large manufacturers such as 3M and Honeywell to increase production of the more difficult to manufacture N95 masks, but supply was still falling hundreds of millions of units short of demand. NPR found the shortage could be resolved by providing government ...