In a statement, the White House said Biden will use the Defense Production Act to improve the domestic manufacturing of medicines deemed crucial for national security and will convene the first meeting of the president’s supply chain resilience council to announce other measures tied to the production and shipment of goods.
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The Defense Production Act of 1950, which was passed to streamline production during the Korean war, was last used in early 2021 during the coronavirus pandemic to accelerate and expand the availability of ventilators and personal protective equipment.
I agree with this, this complaint is baked into my comment. Ideally we wouldn’t be running a government by re-interpreting laws from the past. We are and that’s a shame.
Oh I’m the opposite of an accelerationist, I think the solution to the Trump problem is just defeating him at the ballot box, the solution to the voter base that likes him is probably just that we have to compromise with them and do weird interpreting like Biden is doing as necessary. Because their votes count equally, they are allowed to vote this way even if I don’t like it.
It’s just a shame we can’t regularly write good legislation and get it passed to fix specific current problems, and delete the legislation that a majority of folks don’t like. The inertia that leaves the Comstock Act and Insurrection Act on the books 100+ years later to wreak havoc in unpredictable ways is weird and bad.