President Donald Trump will use the Defense Production Act, which he initiated last week, to procure test kits, according to the head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA).
“So, just a little while ago my team came in, and we’re actually going to use the DPA for first time today,” FEMA Administrator Peter Gaynor told CNN. The move would allow them to gain access to “about 60,000 test kits,” and language from the act would be used in contracts for the federal government’s order of 500 million protective masks, he added.
