The head of FEMA is contradicting President Donald Trump’s repeated claims that the Defense Production Act has been invoked to require U.S.
manufacturers to produce critical supplies, in this case medical supplies like masks and ventilators to help in the war against the coronavirus.
Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) administrator Pete Gaynor says Trump not invoking the law – and falsely claiming companies are doing enough on their own – is “what makes America so great.” Gaynor took to