The debate focuses on a 1950 law, but it's also about whether and when the president should take charge in a pandemic.
, in particular, said it’s partnering with General Electric, which already makes ventilators, to build units in idling automobile plants., especially if the auto companies can help existing ventilator manufacturers get their hands on essential, hard-to-find components. But it will take time for Ford’s factories to retool and the CEO said on Monday that he thought the earliest machines could roll off their production lines was June.
“You’re basically putting these manufacturers instead of the government in the position of deciding who gets what first,” said Mulligan, who was director for preparedness and response in the Justice Department’s National Security Division from 2017 to 2018.President Donald Trump suggested that using his authority under the Defense Production Act would be akin to a Venezuela-like takeover of industry.
That may be happening now. In just the last week, during the daily White House briefings on the pandemic response, Pence has mentioned several times that the federal government is overseeing a nationwide inventory of ventilators. At Tuesday’s briefing, he even had some specific statistics on shipments of goods to cities and states.
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