Trump Sets Goal for U.S. of Making 100,000 Ventilators in 100 Days for Coronavirus Patients, Will Share Surplus With the World!
President Trump announced the United States will build 100,000 ventilators in 100 days to deal with the COVID-19 Chinese coronavirus. Trump said that if it turns out there are surplus ventilators after taking care of Americans he will share them with the nations of the world.
Trump spoke about the ventilators at the daily White House coronavirus task force where he also spoke about invoking the Defense Production Act to order General Motors to produce ventilators after negotiations faltered this week. Trump also announced he is appointing Peter Navarro to be the National Defense Production Act Policy Coordinator.
Trump listed several companies in addition to GM that will partake in the ventilator effort: GE, Philips, Medtronic, Hamilton, Zoll, ResMed; HillRom and Vyair.
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President @realDonaldTrump: in the next 100 days, we will get or produce over 100,000 ventilatorsyoutu.be/_cfu6jmE_zQ
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Speaking about the DPA and GM:
Announcing appointment of Peter Navarro:
President Trump announces Peter Navarro will serve as the National Defense Production Act Policy Coordinator.
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Last night on Hannity Trump expressed skepticism about the need for the 30,000 to 40,000 ventilators requested by New York and he held that skepticism at the briefing Friday.
On Hannity, Trump says he doesn't believe NY Gov. Guomo actually needs the ventilators he's asking for.
TRUMP: "I don't believe you need 40,000 or 30,000 ventilators."
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However, Trump obviously has decided to err on the side of over production with a benefit of helping the world by being able to share surplus ventilators or to continue making them on a large scale until the pandemic ends.
Thursday night the New York Times reported on the problems with the GM negotiations, but reported the story to leave the impression that Trump was too cheap to spend $1 billion on ventilators to save American lives.
Via @SangerNYT, @KannoYoungs and me, the White House was all set yesterday to announce a deal on accelerated ventilator production w GM. Then suddenly, the deal was off. Among the concerns said to have been cited by the Colonel at FEMA working on it? 1/ nytimes.com/2020/03/26/us/…
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Via @SangerNYT, @KannoYoungs and me, the White House was all set yesterday to announce a deal on accelerated ventilator production w GM. Then suddenly, the deal was off. Among the concerns said to have been cited by the Colonel at FEMA working on it? 1/ nytimes.com/2020/03/26/us/…
2/2 the pricetag and whether they would end up with an expensive surplus of ventilators. The pricetag would be just over $1 bill for duration of deal. The govt just forged a $2 trill spending deal nytimes.com/2020/03/26/us/…
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Trump Sets Goal for U.S. of Making 100,000 Ventilators in 100 Days for Coronavirus Patients, Will Share Surplus With the World!
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