The Trump administration, under pressure to do more to ramp up coronavirus testing in order to safely reopen the battered U.S. economy, is highlighting this week a $2.9 billion program to build 187,000 ventilators this year.
U.S. President Donald Trump holds up an article from the conservative"National Review" magazine criticizing the news media and defending the president's response to state requests for medical ventilators as Trump addresses the daily coronavirus task force briefing at the White House in Washington, U.S., April 20, 2020. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst
On Monday, U.S. President Donald Trump taunted critics of his administration’s coronavirus response, tweeting: “Last month all you heard from the Radical Left, Do Nothing Democrats was, “Ventilators, Ventilators, Ventilators.” They screamed it loud & clear, & thought they had us cold, even though it was the State’s task. But everyone got their V’s, with many to spare.”
On March 27, Trump invoked the Korean War era Defense Production Act to compel General Motors Co to build ventilators.
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