President Trump invoked sweeping war powers last week to demand that General Motors start producing ventilators, but so far his administration has done little to enforce the order
“I have no reason to believe it was anything other than rhetorical flourish,” said Sam Abuelsamid, a senior automotive analyst at Navigant, a research and consulting firm. “The comments from [Trump] were looking to blame anybody but himself.”
If updates do not come “for another day or two,” Navarro said, “then we’re going to have to look more closely at that.” “Whoever is making the decisions doesn’t want to use the DPA to the extent of its actual authority,” said Peter Shulman, associate professor at Case Western Reserve University who studies the law’s application throughout history. “They should be mobilizing whole sectors of the economy. This is baffling to me.”
As he waits for updates from GM, Navarro said he has conceived a “White House challenge” to see how fast GM and rival automaker Ford can produce their first 100 ventilators. “The race is on,” he said. “Even though GM was making plans to do so, they were not moving in 'Trump time,' which is to say as quickly as possible,” he said. “And their attitude was, before they would fully commit, ‘Show me the money. Give us the contract.’ And that led to the loss literally of days.”Shulman and other DPA experts said Trump’s order was always destined to have little impact because it came after the crisis had been underway for weeks and only targeted one company.
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