Office of Trade and Manufacturing Policy: Difference between revisions

In August 2020, the OTMP released a report giving an update on the status of the federal government's usage of the DPA. The report identified 78 instances of actions undertaken by the Trump administration to combat certain equipment shortages.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/OTMP-DPA-Report-FINAL-8.13.20.pdf|title=How President Trump Uses the Defense Production Act to Protect America From the China Virus|date=August 13, 2020|publisher=White House Office of Trade and Manufacturing Policy|access-date=November 17, 2020}}</ref> This report faced criticism as later analysis showed several cited instances in the report were either executive orders unrelated to the production of medical equipment or Defense Department expenditures that did not directly address the nation's supply shortages, with some examples dating as far back as 2017.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/22/health/Covid-Trump-Defense-Production-Act.html|title=Despite Claims, Trump Rarely Uses Wartime Law in Battle Against Covid|last=Jacobs|first=Andrew|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|date=September 22, 2020|access-date=November 17, 2020}}</ref> With Ohio Senator [[Sherrod Brown]] labeling the report as “propaganda” and a “political stunt”.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/22/health/Covid-Trump-Defense-Production-Act.html|title=White House defends President Trump's handling of coronavirus in a new report that Sherrod Brown calls 'propaganda'|last=Eaton|first=Sabrina|work=The New York Times |date=August 14, 2020|access-date=November 17, 2020}}</ref>