Washington. The Coalition for a Prosperous America (CPA) is urging the Trump Administration to invoke the Defense Production Act (DPA) in order to rapidly increase the nation’s supply of medical ventilators. “America’s manufacturers stand ready to produce needed medical hardware,” said CPA Chair Dan DiMicco. “Yet we’ve heard troubling reports that some multinational ventilator companies are…
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Editors Note: Michael Stumo is CEO of the Coalition for a Prosperous America, a national organization based in Washington, D.C. Follow him at @michael_stumo. He wrote this commentary exclusively for the News Tribune. The coronavirus pandemic has revealed that globalized supply chains cause more risk than Wall Street has led us to believe. As a recent Senate…
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Editor’s note: R-CALF USA is a CPA member organization with a new program connecting consumers directly with US ranchers. Billings, Mont. – In the wake of reports that beef cases in grocery stores are empty in some areas of the country, R-CALF USA has launched a new Website to connect consumers with their neighboring cattle…
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Editor’s note: Here are the recent actions from the Trump administration on COVID. Note especially the FDA actions relaxing certain rules for ventilators and other regulated items. Today President Trump signed an Executive Order providing the authority to address, if necessary, hoarding that threatens the supply of necessary health and medical resources. This includes the…
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Editor’s note: This press release from Ways and Means Chairman Richard Neal shows the House Democrats legislative proposal regarding the coronavirus pandemic. Committee provisions provide support for hospitals, patients, workers, and small businesses [Congressman Richard E. Neal | March 23, 2020 | House Committee on Ways & Means] Ways and Means Contributions to House Democrats’…
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CPA member Rosemary Gibson testified March 12, 2020 before the Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship, 90 percent of America’s generic drug needs are currently imported, particularly from China. This includes many well-known antibiotics and other medications used to treat coronavirus infections. However, the coronavirus outbreak has severely disrupted China’s production of drug exports for…
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Editor’s note: China’s creeping colonialism is partially quantified as to Europe. For more than a decade, Chinese political and corporate leaders have been scouring the globe with seemingly bottomless wallets in hand. From Asia to Africa, the U.S. and Latin America, the results are hard to ignore as China has asserted itself as an emerging world…
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Necessary response to mobilize US economy to fight pandemic Washington. The Coalition for a Prosperous America (CPA) strongly supports the Trump administration’s executive order enabling the Defense Production Act to mobilize the economy to fight the coronavirus. The pandemic has revealed economic weaknesses arising from excessive dependence on China and other countries for medical, drug and other critical production.…
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Excerpt: ““Beijing intends to use the global dislocation and downturn to attract foreign investment, to seize strategic market share and resources—especially those that force dependence, and to proliferate global information systems; to as Chinese sources put it, ‘leap-frog’ industrially, ‘overtake around the corner’ strategically, capture the ‘commanding heights’ globally. Beijing intends to reverse recent U.S. efforts to counteract China’s subversive…
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CPA sent the following letter to President Trump today calling for an executive order to rebuild the drug and medical supply chain in the US as we face the coronavirus pandemic. March 18, 2020 The Honorable Donald J. TrumpPresident of the United StatesThe White House 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, Northwest Washington, D.C. 20500 Re: Support for Executive Order…
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