BREAKING: Trump is invoking the Defense Production Act to require General Motors to manufacture ventilators needed by hospitals during the coronavirus pandemic.
Trump took action under the Defense Production Act, a 1950 law that gives the president legal power over industrial production, and signed a memorandum “to require General Motors to accept, perform, and prioritize Federal contracts for ventilators.”
Trump signed an executive order allowing for use of the DPA last week, but he has largely resisted pleas for him to use it. He said last weekend that the private sector was already stepping up to make products in low supply ― ventilators, portable X-ray devices, COVID-19 test reagents, masks and gowns ― and that using the DPA would be akin to socialism.
“We need the product now,” New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Sunday. “We have cries from hospitals around the state. I’ve spoken to governors around the country, and they’re in the same situation.”
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