Tours test swab manufacturing facility. On Friday, President Trump traveled to the state of Maine to visit the small town of Guilford, home to one of the two…
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Meat for U.S. Down, Exported to China Up
Difficult outcome being made worse, Connecticut representative says. Last week, President Trump ordered some meat processing plans to stay open to protect the nation’s food supply. Yet the…
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President’s Executive Order a Blessing for Meat Industry
The pandemic still a challenge in the world of meat packing. On Wednesday, President Trump signed an executive order that included meat processing plants as part of the…
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President to Keep Meat-Processing Plants Open
His order will invoke the Defense Production Act. On Sunday, Tyson Foods ran an ad in many national newspapers calling out the difficulty of producing meat while keeping…
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New York Retailer Charged with Price Gouging
First federal prosecution of price gouging during pandemic. Amardeep Singh stocked his warehouse with 5,000 face shields, 2,471 isolation suits, and 711,400 disposable medical gloves, and began marketing…
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President Invokes Wartime Powers
Utilizes Defense Production Act to boost medical equipment availability. On Friday of last week, President Trump Invoked the Defense Production Act, thereby ordering General Motors to produce more…
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Coronavirus Task Force Briefing – Friday
Defense Production Act being engaged for medical equipment production. White House adviser Peter Navarro thanked the president for engaging the Defense Production Act that will enable them to…
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President Says Ford, GM, must build ventilators
President might invoke Defense Production Act. President Donald Trump told General Motors Co. and Ford Motor Co. on Friday that they must quickly build badly needed ventilators for…
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American Automakers May Shift Gears to Help
They could soon be rolling out ventilators. Automobile manufacturers in the U.S. are assessing whether they can convert their plants to make critical medical equipment, like ventilators, that…
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