Since the onset of the Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic, US President Donald Trump has been criticised for not invoking the DPA earlier. Since March, however, the law has been used to compel General Motors to build ventilators for the US Government and mandate companies like 3M to expand their production of N95 respirator masks. The law has its legislative roots in the War Powers Act of WWII.

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