Trump's Failure Grows As He Won't Invoke The Defense Production Act

Sarah Reese Jones @PoliticusSarah
Trump is making the crisis worse by making it more difficult for those who need equipment and supplies to get them because he wants companies to make a profit

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Posted on Sat, Mar 21st, 2020 by Jason Easley

Trump’s Failure Grows As He Won’t Invoke The Defense Production Act


Trump admitted that he hasn’t invoked the Defense Production Act, and he won’t because he wants private companies to profit.


Trump said during the coronavirus press briefing, “If I don’t have to use — specifically we have the act to use in case we need it, but we have so many things being made by so many, they have just stepped up. In fact, Mike Pence and I were discussing it before, we’ve never seen anything like it, they’re volunteer, like Hanes — I brought that up as an example, General Motors…They’re going to go on the open market. We want them on the open market from the standpoint of pricing…We are directing states and sometimes we’ll be competing against states, which I don’t want, and we’ll drop out of the bidding.”

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