Posted on 03/19/2020 6:18:36 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) on Thursday called on President Trump to use the emergency war powers he invoked just a day earlier to immediately press U.S. industry to accelerate the production of medical supplies to fight the coronavirus.
"Right now, shortages of critical medical and personal protective equipment are harming our ability to fight the coronavirus epidemic, endangering frontline workers and making it harder to care for those who fall ill," Pelosi said in a statement.
Trump on Wednesday had invoked the 1950 Defense Production Act — an exceedingly rare step for a president — which empowers the government to mobilize private industry to ramp up production in the name of national security.
In this case, the target would be medical supplies and testing, as U.S. policymakers and health officials, scrambling to contain the spread of the fast-moving coronavirus, have faced shortages of test-kits, medical masks and other provisions.
"I view it as, in a sense, a wartime president. I mean, that’s what we’re fighting," Trump said Wednesday from the White House. "It’s a war. ... It spread violently. It’s a very, very contagious virus.”
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Gee, I wonder if she recently invested in personal protection equipment or medical equipment manufacturer stocks.
It's a trap. Today she will urge him to use war powers. Tomorrow she will impeach him for doing just that.
Start by having Nancy arrested.
What does this stupid bitch think he has been doing?
I wonder if those war powers allow for the immediate arrest of the 2016 coup potters.
WHY? I do not have a clue but he has already been working with businesses to produce medical equipment.
I hear Nancy is balking at sending out our thousand dollar checks. She wants it “means tested”. Pelosi realizes Trump will co op the dems’ most effective election tool, free money. $20T debt with multiple trillions to be added this summer. What the hell, multinational companies will be bailed out, why not me? It’s only our grandchildren’s money. Where’s my monthly thousand dollars from now until November. I want my stock portfolio made whole too.
This is a war. This is an invasion of a foreign being, even though it’s a virus......................
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She would scream bloody murder if the GOP suggested to do that for SS or Medicare....................
That doesn’t surprise me at all. She derided President Bush’s thousand dollar tax rebates as chump change. She wants the money funnelled to her cronies and family members like her nephew Gavin Nuisance.
Crap, we have been being invaded for decades across our southern borders.
Can we extend this to that?
The Dems are compiling a new List of things to blame on Trump
Breaking HER rice bowl.
Now she's invested in the very companies she's demanding Trump fund with taxpayer money.
Bet on it.
Excellent thought. So many positive waves.
Talk about "deep state" schemes going horribly wrong and fast. :)
Golly! I wish I’d-a thought of that!
Hey, Nan... Look up the word “irrelevant” in the ol’ Funk & Wagnall, and take a look in the mirror...
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