CORONAVIRUS/INTELLIGENCE/JOE BIDEN: “I think Trump has just stunned everyone around him at just how corrupt his thinking is. I mean, think about this. You remember he said under oath — not under oath. I shouldn’t say that — said to the American public that he didn’t get that briefing on how dangerous coronavirus was, he […]
Tag: Defense Production Act
8/6/2020
BUSINESS/JOE BIDEN: “I’ve laid out in detail what I would do, and all the way back in January, when this first came out. Then I did again in March, talked about how I would invoke the Defense Act to require significant stockpiling of PPE. I would also have made sure that we wouldn’t have fired the […]
7/28/2020
BUSINESS/DRUGS: “[M]y administration is using the Defense Production Act to provide a $765 million loan to support the launch of Kodak Pharmaceuticals. It’s a great name, when you think of it. Such a great name. It was one of the great brands in the world. Then people went digital, and Kodak didn’t follow. But now, […]
4/19/2020
CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “We also are going to be using, and we’re preparing to use, the Defense Production Act to increase swab production in one U.S. facility by over 20 million additional swabs per month… You must remember that the governors wanted to have total control over the opening of their states, but now they […]
4/5/2020
CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/JOE BIDEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The virus is not his [President Trump’s] fault, but the response is his responsibility. Look, there are a few things he can do — he can immediately and fully implement the Defense Production Act, which I and many others called for a long time ago. And he’s just getting underway with […]
4/5/2020
CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/JOE BIDEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “You have to implement the Defense Production Act, empower a supply commander, create a Defense Production Act for banks that get out small business loans, ramp up testing, a whole range of things. You got to go faster than slower. And we started off awfully slow… It’s about — it’s about […]
3/27/2020
CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Today, I signed a Presidential Memorandum directing the Secretary of Health and Human Services to use any and all authority available under the Defense Production Act to require General Motors to accept, perform, and prioritize Federal contracts for ventilators.” -Donald Trump, “Statement from the President Regarding the Defense Production Act,” whitehouse.gov, Mar. […]
3/26/2020
CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “[W]e inherited a broken situation, but I don’t totally blame the people that were before me and this administration. Nobody would have ever thought a thing like this could have happened. But the Production Act — Defense Production Act — is a wonderful thing, but I just haven’t had to use it. They […]
3/24/2020
DEFENSE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Defense Production Act is in full force, but haven’t had to use it because no one has said NO! Millions of masks coming as back up to States.” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, March 24, 2020 7:00 am […]
3/23/2020
CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/JOE BIDEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Our intelligence officials were warning of coronavirus threat in January. Just based on public information that I had, I warned the threat was getting worse way back on January the 27th… As of late yesterday, we’re told that the president still has not activated the authority under the Defense Production Act, […]
3/18/2020
CHINA/CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “I only signed the Defense Production Act to combat the Chinese Virus should we need to invoke it in a worst case scenario in the future. Hopefully there will be no need, but we are all in this TOGETHER!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, Mar. 18, 2020 5:37 pm […]
3/18/2020
CHINA/CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “We’ll be invoking the Defense Production Act, just in case we need it. In other words, I think you all know what it is, and it can do a lot of good things if we need it… I think we’re doing a really good job. We started off with a termination of […]