{"id":1175,"date":"2020-04-20T17:17:43","date_gmt":"2020-04-20T17:17:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/penning.us\/Nick2\/?p=1175"},"modified":"2020-04-20T17:17:43","modified_gmt":"2020-04-20T17:17:43","slug":"president-trumps-wartime-powers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/penning.us\/Nick2\/2020\/04\/20\/president-trumps-wartime-powers\/","title":{"rendered":"President Trump&#8217;s Wartime Powers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Trump says of the governors\u2019 response to the coronavirus, \u201cWe hope they can do the job,\u201d and of the Defense Production Act, \u201cWe have the threat of doing it if we need it\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/governors-and-mayors-in-growing-uproar-over-trumps-lagging-coronavirus-response\/2020\/03\/22\/98ac569a-6c49-11ea-a3ec-70d7479d83f0_story.html\">Washington Post<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>In World War II, we didn\u2019t ask each state to build its own bombers, make its own ammunition and sew its own parachutes to help the country defend itself and win the war. And we can\u2019t settle for the president coaxing manufacturers to \u201cdo the right thing.\u201d <\/p>\n<p><strong><em>He<\/em><\/strong> should do the right thing and order our manufacturing might into action. He should be a leader so doctors and nurses and hospitals and the patients they treat can survive. <\/p>\n<p>He should help us all keep alive.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; See the Post article also at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/governors-and-mayors-in-growing-uproar-over-trumps-lagging-coronavirus-response\/2020\/03\/22\/98ac569a-6c49-11ea-a3ec-70d7479d83f0_story.html\">https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/governors-and-mayors-in-growing-uproar-over-trumps-lagging-coronavirus-response\/2020\/03\/22\/98ac569a-6c49-11ea-a3ec-70d7479d83f0_story.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Trump says of the governors\u2019 response to the coronavirus, \u201cWe hope they can do the job,\u201d and of the Defense Production Act, \u201cWe have the threat of doing it if we need it\u201d [Washington Post]. In World War II, we didn\u2019t ask each state to build its own bombers, make its own ammunition and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/penning.us\/Nick2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/penning.us\/Nick2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/penning.us\/Nick2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/penning.us\/Nick2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/penning.us\/Nick2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1175"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/penning.us\/Nick2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1175\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1186,"href":"https:\/\/penning.us\/Nick2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1175\/revisions\/1186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/penning.us\/Nick2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/penning.us\/Nick2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/penning.us\/Nick2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}