[ April 25, 2024 ]
We bailed GM out, it’s time to give back.
Trump orders General Motors to make ventilators under Defense Production Act
President Donald Trump has ordered General Motors to make ventilators under the Defense Production Act hours after criticizing the company for not acting quickly enough to produce the supplies amid the coronavirus pandemic.
By: CNBC, Mar 27 2020:
Story continues below advertisementThe Korean War-era statute can force certain American companies to produce materials that are in short supply in the face of the growing outbreak.
The order comes hours after GM announced plans to build critical-care ventilators with Ventec Life Systems at one of the automaker’s components plants in Indiana.
The order does not change GM’s previously announced plans or schedule to produce the ventilators, according to GM spokesman Jim Cain. Earlier, the companies said they were expecting to begin shipping as early as next month.
GM, in an emailed statement, did not directly address Trump invoking the act. It reiterated that employees with Ventec, GM and their supply base “have been working around the clock for over a week to meet this urgent need.”
“Our commitment to build Ventec’s high-quality critical care ventilator, VOCSN, has never wavered,” GM said. “The partnership between Ventec and GM combines global expertise in manufacturing quality and a joint commitment to safety to give medical professionals and patients access to life-saving technology as rapidly as possible. The entire GM team is proud to support this initiative.”
The announcement that Trump was implementing the DPA came less than a day after the president cast doubt on New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s assertion that his state would need at least 30,000 ventilators to meet the predicted explosion in demand from COVID-19 patients in the coming weeks.”
I have a feeling that a lot of the numbers that are being said in some areas are just bigger than they’re going to be,” Trump said in an interview with Fox News host Sean Hannity. “I don’t believe you need 40,000 or 30,000 ventilators. You know, you go into major hospitals sometimes they’ll have two ventilators. And now all of a sudden they’re saying, ‘Can we order 30,000 ventilators?’”
Prior to GM’s announcement, Trump criticized the automaker and GM CEO Mary Barra on Friday for their response to producing life-saving ventilators amid the coronavirus pandemic and wanting “top dollar” for doing so. In a tweet, he referenced invoking the Defense Production Act, however did not provide details.
Earlier Friday, The New York Times reported that GM and Ventec Life Systems, with which it is partnering to build such supplies, wanted more than $1 billion, including hundreds of millions upfront to GM to retool a car parts plant in Kokomo, Indiana, to make the ventilators.
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12 Comments
4 years ago
Mary Barra is GM’s FIRST FEMALE CEO!
She plays games even after a U.S. BAILOUT to “save GM”.
Go for it President Trump, MAKE HER DO IT.
Never forget YOU as a taxpayer, bailed her (GM) out, and she continued to move plants to Mexico! She also has car plants in China! She single handedly unemployed allot of people in the U.S. … She also moved car manufacturing in Canada to Mexico too and while keeping car manufacturing in China. Below is a map of GM jobs lost to Mexico.
4 years ago
We already have two manufacturers of ventilators in the USA. one is Beckman Dickinson, an old line established large company and Resmed a newer small company. Are they at maximum capacity????
4 years ago
They said “no!” So we will make them do it.
4 years ago
Replace the bloodsucking “Ratbag”; production is way down from her!
4 years ago
they take our money. They do our job
4 years ago
Reply to
dad1927
GM recently moved their research facility to China while we keep sending them taxpayers money.
4 years ago
Reply to
dad1927
GM recently moved their research facility to China while we keep sending them taxpayers money.
4 years ago
The company received the bailout and used it to push production to Communist China – said they were moving all car production there including ALL Cadillac lines with just some truck assembly here. I suppose much of that is now in question, but still – let them bitch, they are not an American company anymore.
4 years ago
GM has a big problem that will most likely cause it to enter bankruptcy and that is its dependence on China and the CCP. After the bailout, this Witch moved thousands of jobs to China at the expense of American Workers. They even moved their research facilities. GM denuded their factories in the US. They are now paying the price. Very soon Trump will be taking action to ensure the CCP never attacks the US with a WMD. The Chinese will likely respond with seizing US assets in China. GM will crash and burn. Hopefully, someone will arise to put it all back together. It will not be Ms.Barra, of that we can be certain.
4 years ago
Gee, having said we really don’t need them, now Trump’s done a sanity check and decided that we do. Anybody really believe that we’ll somehow build 100,000 of them in 100 days, like he’s said we will?
4 years ago
Way to go, Mr. President! Thank you.
