From her office: Nancy Pelosi - Speaker of the House (March 19th, 2020)
Pelosi Statement Calling on President Trump to Use Defense Production Act Powers Immediately
“Right now, shortages of critical medical and personal protective equipment are harming our ability to fight the coronavirus epidemic, endangering frontline workers and making it harder to care for those who fall ill.
“The President must immediately use the powers of the Defense Production Act to mass produce and coordinate distribution of these critical supplies, before the need worsens and the shortages become even more dire. There is not a day to lose. We must put more testing, more protective equipment and more ventilators into the hands of our frontline workers immediately.”
From CNN (March 18th, 2020)
Trump invokes Defense Production Act to expand production of hospital masks and more
President Donald Trump said during Wednesday's White House press briefing that he will be invoking the Defense Production Act to help make up for potential medical supply shortages and deploy two hospital ships as the US battles the coronavirus pandemic.
Trump said that he sees the country on wartime footing and himself as a wartime president amid the coronavirus crisis.
"I view it -- in a sense as a wartime president," Trump said after announcing he was invoking the Defense Production Act, which was established in 1950 in response to production needs during the Korean War.
You would think that her office would be better at basic fact checking.
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