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Trump never invoked the Defense Production Act.

by einarvollset 5y ago

dan-robertson 5y ago
But Biden did, right?
- einarvollset 5y ago
  Yep
- bogomipz 5y ago
  They both did. Trump did it for medical supplies a year earlier: https://www.lawfareblog.com/understanding-bidens-invocation-defense-production-act https://www.lawfareblog.com/understanding-bidens-invocation-...
optimiz3 5y ago
> President Trump first invoked the DPA in late March 2020 in response to the coronavirus pandemic...limiting the export of medical goods, increasing domestic production of masks and ventilators https://www.lawfareblog.com/understanding-bidens-invocation-defense-production-act https://www.lawfareblog.com/understanding-bidens-invocation-... Nothing in there on vaccine export but one would assume it is implied.
- einarvollset 5y ago
  It is not I don't think, but I could be wrong.
blhack 5y ago
Yes he did: https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/18/politics/trump-defense-production-act-coronavirus/index.html https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/18/politics/trump-defense-produc...
- shagie 5y ago
  Trump invoked the DPA for: * protective equipment and ventilators * specifically 3M and companies for masks and ventilators * testing swabs * diagnostic systems and assays --- https://web.archive.org/web/20200318233011/https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/executive-order-prioritizing-allocating-health-medical-resources-respond-spread-covid-19/ https://web.archive.org/web/20200318233011/https://www.white... > Accordingly, I find that health and medical resources needed to respond to the spread of COVID-19, including personal protective equipment and ventilators, meet the criteria specified in section 101(b) of the Act (50 U.S.C. 4511(b)). Note that this is the executive order for allowing the Secretary of Health and Human Services to do things... > (c) The Secretary of Health and Human Services shall issue such orders and adopt and revise appropriate rules and regulations as may be necessary to implement this order. It wasn't specifically saying "you, company, make this." --- https://www.politico.com/news/2020/04/02/trump-expands-dpa-order-162128 https://www.politico.com/news/2020/04/02/trump-expands-dpa-o... > President Donald Trump on Thursday invoked the Defense Production Act to push 3M and six major medical device companies to produce protective masks and ventilators needed for the coronavirus outbreak, bowing to weeks of pressure to expand the federal government’s use of the emergency statute. --- https://www.politico.com/news/2020/04/19/trump-dpa-testing-swabs-reported-shortages-195721 https://www.politico.com/news/2020/04/19/trump-dpa-testing-s... > President Donald Trump will use the Defense Production Act to compel an unnamed company to produce 20 million more coronavirus testing swabs every month — weeks after labs and public health officials started warning that shortages of these swabs were hurting efforts to ramp up testing nationwide --- https://www.hhs.gov/about/news/2020/08/20/trump-administration-uses-defense-production-act-to-aid-our-most-vulnerable.html https://www.hhs.gov/about/news/2020/08/20/trump-administrati... > These acquisitions will fulfill a large-volume purchase of diagnostic systems and assays for COVID-19 testing and will expedite shipments of these systems and assays to every nursing home certified by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid services (CMS) with a Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendment (CLIA) Certificate of Waiver – approximately 14,000 nursing homes – in the United States. --- Further reading: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defense_Production_Act_of_1950#COVID-19_pandemic https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defense_Production_Act_of_1950... Additionally - https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-12-08/trump-vows-to-use-defense-production-act-if-needed-for-vaccines https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-12-08/trump-vow... > Trump raised the specter of invoking the Defense Production Act -- which allows the president to require companies to prioritize contracts deemed essential for national security -- if the U.S. struggles to obtain the vaccine for its citizens. > “If we have any problems, we will be instituting the Defense Production Act and make sure we don’t have any problems,” he said. Trump did not invoke the DPA for vaccines.
cmrdporcupine 5y ago
He didn't need to, he used other methods -- signed an executive order putting Americans ahead for anything produced in the US. https://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/trump-signs-order-to-put-americans-at-head-of-vaccine-line-vows-to-work-with-world-1.5221941 https://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/trump-signs-order-to-put-ame... Forced US allies to source from Pfizer's Belgium plant instead.
dragonwriter 5y ago
Trump invoked the Defense Production Act to prevent states from addressing COVID outbreaks in the meat packing industry. Some people might say that deliberately accelerating the pandemic wasn't the best use of the DPA, but he certainly did use it.

Trump never invoked the Defense Production Act.

dan-robertson 5y ago

But Biden did, right?

einarvollset 5y ago
Yep
bogomipz 5y ago
They both did. Trump did it for medical supplies a year earlier: https://www.lawfareblog.com/understanding-bidens-invocation-defense-production-act https://www.lawfareblog.com/understanding-bidens-invocation-...

optimiz3 5y ago

> President Trump first invoked the DPA in late March 2020 in response to the coronavirus pandemic...limiting the export of medical goods, increasing domestic production of masks and ventilators https://www.lawfareblog.com/understanding-bidens-invocation-defense-production-act https://www.lawfareblog.com/understanding-bidens-invocation-... Nothing in there on vaccine export but one would assume it is implied.

einarvollset 5y ago
It is not I don't think, but I could be wrong.

blhack 5y ago

Yes he did: https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/18/politics/trump-defense-production-act-coronavirus/index.html https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/18/politics/trump-defense-produc...

shagie 5y ago
Trump invoked the DPA for: * protective equipment and ventilators * specifically 3M and companies for masks and ventilators * testing swabs * diagnostic systems and assays --- https://web.archive.org/web/20200318233011/https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/executive-order-prioritizing-allocating-health-medical-resources-respond-spread-covid-19/ https://web.archive.org/web/20200318233011/https://www.white... > Accordingly, I find that health and medical resources needed to respond to the spread of COVID-19, including personal protective equipment and ventilators, meet the criteria specified in section 101(b) of the Act (50 U.S.C. 4511(b)). Note that this is the executive order for allowing the Secretary of Health and Human Services to do things... > (c) The Secretary of Health and Human Services shall issue such orders and adopt and revise appropriate rules and regulations as may be necessary to implement this order. It wasn't specifically saying "you, company, make this." --- https://www.politico.com/news/2020/04/02/trump-expands-dpa-order-162128 https://www.politico.com/news/2020/04/02/trump-expands-dpa-o... > President Donald Trump on Thursday invoked the Defense Production Act to push 3M and six major medical device companies to produce protective masks and ventilators needed for the coronavirus outbreak, bowing to weeks of pressure to expand the federal government’s use of the emergency statute. --- https://www.politico.com/news/2020/04/19/trump-dpa-testing-swabs-reported-shortages-195721 https://www.politico.com/news/2020/04/19/trump-dpa-testing-s... > President Donald Trump will use the Defense Production Act to compel an unnamed company to produce 20 million more coronavirus testing swabs every month — weeks after labs and public health officials started warning that shortages of these swabs were hurting efforts to ramp up testing nationwide --- https://www.hhs.gov/about/news/2020/08/20/trump-administration-uses-defense-production-act-to-aid-our-most-vulnerable.html https://www.hhs.gov/about/news/2020/08/20/trump-administrati... > These acquisitions will fulfill a large-volume purchase of diagnostic systems and assays for COVID-19 testing and will expedite shipments of these systems and assays to every nursing home certified by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid services (CMS) with a Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendment (CLIA) Certificate of Waiver – approximately 14,000 nursing homes – in the United States. --- Further reading: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defense_Production_Act_of_1950#COVID-19_pandemic https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defense_Production_Act_of_1950... Additionally - https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-12-08/trump-vows-to-use-defense-production-act-if-needed-for-vaccines https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-12-08/trump-vow... > Trump raised the specter of invoking the Defense Production Act -- which allows the president to require companies to prioritize contracts deemed essential for national security -- if the U.S. struggles to obtain the vaccine for its citizens. > “If we have any problems, we will be instituting the Defense Production Act and make sure we don’t have any problems,” he said. Trump did not invoke the DPA for vaccines.

cmrdporcupine 5y ago

He didn't need to, he used other methods -- signed an executive order putting Americans ahead for anything produced in the US. https://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/trump-signs-order-to-put-americans-at-head-of-vaccine-line-vows-to-work-with-world-1.5221941 https://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/trump-signs-order-to-put-ame... Forced US allies to source from Pfizer's Belgium plant instead.

dragonwriter 5y ago

Trump invoked the Defense Production Act to prevent states from addressing COVID outbreaks in the meat packing industry. Some people might say that deliberately accelerating the pandemic wasn't the best use of the DPA, but he certainly did use it.