WASHINGTON—President Trump said that he would start using his powers under a Korean War-era law to increase the production of ventilators and masks, as hospitals around the country warn of shortages.
“I invoked the Defense Production Act, and last night we put it into gear,” Mr. Trump said Friday in the daily coronavirus briefing at the White House. “We are invoking it to use the power of the federal government to help the states get things they need like masks and ventilators.”
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