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Defense Production Act
June 14, 2022
Grace Segers
The Defense Production Act Is Biden’s Gridlock-Buster
The president has been forced to go it alone thanks to a stalled Congress.
February 3, 2021
Melody Schreiber
Biden Is Missing an Obvious Solution to Speed Up Vaccine Production
The president could use the Defense Production Act much more aggressively to fight the development of new Covid-19 variants.

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