Everyone knows we have a severe shortage of COVID test kits. What may not be known to everyone the Defense Production Act could have been used to mandate companies, switch to producing these test kits. To date Trump has refused. In WW2 the DPA forced companies to produce items needed for war like planes and tanks. Anyone doubt almost 80 years later this country couldn't mass produce corona test kits and necessary reagents?
When does Trump decide to flex his PDA? To force meat packing companies to remain open and to reopen. Even when they have becoms corona hotspots. The really bad part these same companies are not mandated to enact safety precations and social distancing. Enacting the DPA not only forces plants to remain open but gives them legal cover against their own employees. Any safety requirement for these employees is only "under consideration"
One again, economy yes, people no.
President Donald Trump signed an executive order to keep meat processing plants open under the Defense Production Act, after teasing the order from an Oval Office meeting
abcnews.go.com