President Trump says he will be invoking the Defense Production Act to help make up for potential medical supply shortages and deploy two hospital ships as the US battles the coronavirus pandemic
Trump said that he sees the country on wartime footing and himself as a wartime president amid the coronavirus crisis."I view it -- in a sense as a wartime president," Trump said after announcing he was invoking the Defense Production Act, which was established in 1950 in response to production needs during the Korean War.
""He is fully engaged on trying to help New York," Cuomo said, calling the President's actions"creative' and"energetic."Cuomo is also meeting with the Army Corps of Engineers Wednesday afternoon. But the USNS Comfort could still be a"few weeks" away from arriving in New York, a US defense official told CNN. Trump said Wednesday that the administration is still evaluating where to send ships on the West Coast.
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