Posted on 03/27/2020 3:36:01 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
President Donald Trump invoked the rarely used Defense Production Act on Friday to order the Department of Health and Human Services to compel General Motors to manufacturer ventilators hours after he sharply criticized the company for slow-walking production.
"Our negotiations with GM regarding its ability to supply ventilators have been productive, but our fight against the virus is too urgent to allow the give-and-take of the contracting process to continue to run its normal course," Trump said in a statement. "GM was wasting time. Today’s action will help ensure the quick production of ventilators that will save American lives."
Trump, in a tweet on Friday, excoriated General Motors and its CEO, Mary Barra, for not moving quickly enough to produce needed ventilators amid the coronavirus pandemic and wanting “top dollar” for the contract.
“As usual with ‘this’ General Motors, things just never seem to work out,” Trump tweeted. “They said they were going to give us 40,000 much needed Ventilators, ‘very quickly’. Now they are saying it will only be 6000, in late April, and they want top dollar. Always a mess with Mary B. Invoke ‘P.’”
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You’d think gm would welcome the business
Not good advertisement for GM.
Maybe this will make more people wake up to how terrible Gm cars have been for the last couple decades.
I’ll look into it but I don’t understand why the companies that make ventilators can’t be funded to make more.
GM is subsidiary of China.
GM might have wanted this. It gives them some protections that otherwise they might not have had. If I made cars and someone said I had to make medical equipment that, if it doesn’t work right, will cause people to die I’d be scared as hell and want some sort if immunity from lawsuits.
Apparently Trump is taking this covid-19 stuff seriously.
Garbage Motors.
“I’ll look into it but I don’t understand why the companies that make ventilators can’t be funded to make more.”
Probably because they’re all in china.
Call your local dealer (now,) ask for a salesman, tell the salesman you will buy your next GM vehicle when compelled to by government edict. Then tell them they are anti-American pukes.
None of these large corporations make any of their own products. They contract it all out to smaller companies. Why even mess with these big name companies and go straight to the source for these ventilators, masks and other items?
You are on to something. This could be all about liability.
GM took the bailout money and only exists today because the taxpayers bailed them out. They should have been the first to volunteer to do this.
Good for Trump.
Mary Barra is an Obamabot. She hates our President and like all those who suffer from TDS she was attempting to F him up even in the midst of the Wuhan Flu pandemic.
Our President was having none of her BS.
GM should have been broken up years ago.
B-24s at Willow Run?
That was FoMoCo
Maybe we should “force” Trump to open Mar A Lego to the homeless since we will all soon be.
Back to work Trump. That’s what we need, not trillions in printed money via massive bureaucracy.
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