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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, ...
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 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 ]
Trump's attacks against GM again highlight the president's baffling stance on officially invoking the Defense Production Act. Day after day, Trump has said different things about ventilators and ...
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]
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 ...
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 ...
In March 2020, during the coronavirus pandemic, Trump signed Executive Order 13911, naming Peter Navarro as the Defense Production Act policy coordinator, [3] and giving the OTMP authority to marshal federal resources as the US faced potential shortfalls in necessary hardware such as ventilators and personal protective equipment.