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by jumelles 2284 days ago
Trump is inexplicably balking at actually using the Defense Production Act: https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/488526-frustration-mou...

> But in a subsequent tweet on Wednesday evening, Trump indicated that even though he invoked the act, he is in no rush to use it.

> "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," he said. "Hopefully there will be no need, but we are all in this TOGETHER!"