Trump ends vacillating and uses government powers to force GM to make ventilators
WASHINGTON — President Trump on Friday ended nine days of equivocating over whether to deploy the Defense Production Act, announcing that he would use his presidential powers under the legislation to compel General Motors to produce ventilators for the U.S. medical system.
By Friday morning, Trump’s tone had changed. A little less than an hour before noon he tweeted that General Motors “said they were going to give us 40,000 much needed Ventilators, ‘very quickly’. Now they are saying it will only be 6,000, in late April, and they want top dollar.” The Defense Production Act, or DPA, allows the president to compel private industries to produce products deemed necessary for the nation’s defense.
Trump first said he had invoked the DPA on March 18: “We have targets for certain pieces of equipment. We’ve ordered millions of masks, but we need millions more. We need ventilators.” But Trump added another wrinkle on Friday, telling reporters that he had essentially threatened companies that he might use the DPA against them multiple times, but had relented after they agreed to produce medical supplies. “We pulled it back three times because the companies came through in the end and we did not need the act. It has been great leverage,” he said.
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