“President Trump in tweets Friday seemingly threatened to order — or perhaps did order — General Motors and Ford to start making ventilators to help combat the coronavirus outbreak,” the Washington Post reports.
“It was not immediately clear if Trump was invoking his powers under the Defense Production Act to compel the companies to action after he expressed frustration over GM’s unwillingness to follow through on what he characterized as a voluntary pledge.”
Bloomberg: “The Twitter missives are a remarkable turnabout from the night before, when Trump told Fox News he wasn’t invoking the Cold War-era Defense Production Act to compel manufacturers to make ventilators because companies including GM had already stepped up.”
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