{"id":15672,"date":"2020-04-03T12:15:56","date_gmt":"2020-04-03T17:15:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/?p=15672"},"modified":"2020-04-03T11:19:14","modified_gmt":"2020-04-03T16:19:14","slug":"donald-trump-administration-moving-swiftly-to-address-ventilator-shortages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/2020\/04\/03\/donald-trump-administration-moving-swiftly-to-address-ventilator-shortages\/","title":{"rendered":"Donald Trump Administration Moving Swiftly to Address Ventilator Shortages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-43192\" title=\"The White House\" src=\"https:\/\/www.clarksvilleonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/whitehouse-logo-200x136.jpg\" alt=\"The White House\" width=\"200\" height=\"136\"><strong>Washington, D.C.<\/strong> &#8211; \u201cVentilators represent the last line of defense for patients suffering with severe Coronavirus (COVID-19) symptoms. We are moving swiftly in Trump Time to address a significant shortage of these lifesavers,\u201d writes Peter Navarro, Director of the White House Office of Trade and Manufacturing Policy, in USA Today.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n\u201cThe Trump administration has worked with 10 manufacturers on a plan to deliver an additional 5,000 ventilators within the next 30 days, and more than 100,000 additional ventilators by the end of June.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clarksvilleonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/West-Wing.jpg\"  class=\"thickbox no_icon\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-478008\" title=\"The White House - West Wing. (Official White House Photo)\" src=\"https:\/\/www.clarksvilleonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/West-Wing-480x240.jpg\" alt=\"The White House - West Wing. (Official White House Photo)\" width=\"480\" height=\"240\"><\/a><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In a page taken out of the World War II playbook, the Ford Motor Company, with General Electric, is racing to produce an additional 50,000 new ventilators in 100 days at a converted auto plant in Michigan.\u201d<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/whitehouse.us19.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=4da4828d48b4efa4fc1138955&amp;id=67d13d83bf&amp;e=6b36942091\" >Click here to read more.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cLower taxes and fewer regulations unleashed the best economy in half a century and gave small businesses the means to hire more employees, pay higher wages, and reinvest capital. These conditions still exist but are being seriously challenged by&nbsp;the coronavirus pandemic, a true \u2018black swan\u2019 catastrophe. While our nation continues to fight against this pandemic, we have a responsibility in Congress to help small businesses survive this storm,\u201d House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy writes in the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/whitehouse.us19.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=4da4828d48b4efa4fc1138955&amp;id=6ed9241dcf&amp;e=6b36942091\" >Washington Examiner<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAmid the coronavirus pandemic, President Donald Trump has emerged as a strong wartime president [against] an unseen enemy,\u201d Rep. Buddy Carter (R-GA) writes. \u201cHe has risen to the occasion beautifully and fully activated the power of the federal government and private sector to slow the spread of this disease.\u201d Read more in the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/whitehouse.us19.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=4da4828d48b4efa4fc1138955&amp;id=9d90d2e59e&amp;e=6b36942091\" >Effingham Herald<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSmall businesses will be able to access new loans starting Friday to help them stay afloat during the economic crisis wrought by the coronavirus.&nbsp;The $2.2 trillion coronavirus relief bill passed by Congress and signed by President Donald Trump established a $350 billion&nbsp;Paycheck Protection Program,\u201d Fred Lucas reports in <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/whitehouse.us19.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=4da4828d48b4efa4fc1138955&amp;id=281a724d32&amp;e=6b36942091\" >The Daily Signal<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington, D.C. &#8211; \u201cVentilators represent the last line of defense for patients suffering with severe Coronavirus (COVID-19) symptoms. We are moving swiftly in Trump Time to address a significant shortage of these lifesavers,\u201d writes Peter Navarro, Director of the White House Office of Trade and Manufacturing Policy, in USA Today. &nbsp; \u201cThe Trump administration has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[181],"tags":[855,12675,12712,71,11724,2852,185,12828,3338],"class_list":["post-15672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","tag-congress","tag-coronavirus","tag-covid-19","tag-economy","tag-fort-motor-company","tag-general-electric","tag-small-business","tag-ventilators","tag-washington-d-c"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15672"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15672\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15673,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15672\/revisions\/15673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}