Great piece of reporting (@KannoYoungs @AnaSwanson)
Shows “hundreds of thousands of times” Trump admin invoked #DefenseProductionAct for body armor for border agents, drones etc.
But Trump has balked at doing it for nurses, doctors on covid frontlines!
nytimes.com/2020/03/31/us/…
Shows “hundreds of thousands of times” Trump admin invoked #DefenseProductionAct for body armor for border agents, drones etc.
But Trump has balked at doing it for nurses, doctors on covid frontlines!
nytimes.com/2020/03/31/us/…
2. More lack of pandemic preparedness:
Larry Hall: “You have people on the civil side saying, ‘What is this thing? I might get in trouble using it.’”
FEMA, HHS discussed DPA in training, but Hall often had to press his superiors to prepare for its use in the event a pandemic.
Larry Hall: “You have people on the civil side saying, ‘What is this thing? I might get in trouble using it.’”
FEMA, HHS discussed DPA in training, but Hall often had to press his superiors to prepare for its use in the event a pandemic.
3. Also Larry Hall “said such caution had allowed understanding of the law’s powers to atrophy.”
Hall “retired in August [2019] as the director of the Defense Production Act program division at the Federal Emergency Management Agency.”
Hall “retired in August [2019] as the director of the Defense Production Act program division at the Federal Emergency Management Agency.”
