The President is requiring suppliers to direct needed resources to infant formula manufacturers before any other customer who may have ordered that good. Directing firms to prioritize and allocate the production of key infant formula inputs will help increase production and speed up in supply chains.
The White House said in a statement
Moreover, ABC News noted that ‘The president has also directed Department of Defense commercial aircraft to pick up infant formula overseas to get on U.S. shelves faster while U.S. manufacturers ramp up production, the White House said.’
I know parents all across the country are worried about finding enough infant formula to feed their babies. As a parent and as a grandparent, I know just how stressful that is.
Biden stated
Baby formula supplied to the U.S., per Biden’s executive orders, have arrived yesterday, and more is on the way.
What Is The DPA?
So what exactly is the Defense Production Act? The DPA was created in the 1950s during the Korean War, as a means of empowering the nation with necessary supplies to help with the war effort, and any other future national emergencies.
Investopedia defines the DPA as, “The Defense Production Act (DPA) is a law that gives the U.S. president the power to order companies to produce goods and supply services to support national defense.”
The Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) defines it as this:
The current version of the law still gives the executive branch substantial powers. It allows the president, largely through executive order, to direct private companies to prioritize orders from the federal government. The president is also empowered to “allocate materials, services, and facilities” for national defense purposes, and take actions to restrict hoarding of needed supplies. To bolster domestic production, the president may also offer loans or loan guarantees to companies, subject to an appropriation by Congress; make purchases or purchase commitments; and install equipment in government or private factories. Companies can also be authorized to coordinate with each other, which might otherwise violate antitrust laws.
In other words, the U.S. government grants themselves the authority to seize any and all private business and ownership of assets, if the government deems it a necessity for the current national threat, and be forcibly mandated to comply with their orders.
The DPA has been enacted by the last two presidents and current one: Barack Obama, Donald Trump, and Joe Biden.
Investopedia explains how Trump and Biden previously had utilized this act:
The DPA has played a role in the U.S. government’s response to COVID-19 from early on in the pandemic. President Trump declared a national emergency in March 2020, making the pandemic eligible for government action under DPA. However, he used the DPA sparingly, issuing six executive orders and four memoranda that resulted in the prioritization of orders for personal protective equipment, financial incentives to increase the domestic production of medical equipment, and anti-gouging measures. White House trade advisor Peter Navarro insisted to the press that the threat of the DPA could be used to incite voluntary action without needing to actually implement it.
The departments of Homeland Security and Defense had announced plans to put about $1.5 billion in CARES Act funding toward boosting the production of medical supplies. By September 2020, the agencies had provided nearly $640 million for 18 projects, including for ventilators, respirators, and materials for COVID-19 tests and vaccine delivery, according to the U.S. Government Accountability Office, which has been tasked with tracking CARES Act funding.
The government also placed 43 priority orders valued at nearly $4 billion for medical supplies, including about 181,000 ventilators and 166.5 million respirators.
Since taking office President Biden has continued to leverage the powers of DPA to address the pandemic, shifting in part to focus on distributing the vaccine. In January 2021, the president issued a series of executive orders in regard to COVID-19, including one that established a COVID-19 coordinator in the White House to manage agency-wide response and delegate authority to relevant cabinet members to use DPA as needed. Resulting actions under the law included prioritizing orders of the Pfizer vaccine, increasing production of more than 60 million COVID-19 tests by various suppliers, and creating new domestic capacity to produce personal protective equipment.
On March 18th, 2020, President Trump officially initiated the DPA, when the financial markets were crashing and the masses were in pandemonium. Responding to the news, long-time stock market analyst and writer for the Trends Journal, Greggory Mannarino stated this at the time:
Corporations ‘x, y, z,’ is gonna get a bailout from the government, meanwhile your business and you get forced into government servitude, with the threat of having your assets confiscated of forfeited.
Do you still believe that this corrupt government works for you? If you’re a Trump supporter, you believe the man works for you? He works for the New World Order. Period!
AUTHOR COMMENTARY
The rich ruleth over the poor, and the borrower is servant to the lender.
Proverbs 22:7
I’ve said it before, but it is true that America officially died in 2020, though the record books will say it happened years later. And now we live in this new paradigm, and have some time when you get right down to it, that we have crisis economics. That’s it.
And so with the DPA, Biden and the government can legally seize any private business they want to, and force those companies to produce whatever they want them to. This is fascism. But the DPA has been used is “lightweight” in comparison to what it could be enacted for.
[7] Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock? [8] Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also? [9] For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen? [10] Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope. (1 Corinthians 9:7-10).
The WinePress needs your support! If God has laid it on your heart to want to contribute, please prayerfully consider donating to this ministry. If you cannot gift a monetary donation, then please donate your fervent prayers to keep this ministry going! Thank you and may God bless you.
