The president invoked the Defense Production Act to produce more baby formula. He could also use it to declare a medical emergency and expand Medicare to everyone; declare a climate emergency and build a clean energy grid; and cancel the college loan debt.

May 19, 2022 · 3:52 PM UTC

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"Helping babies and mothers with formula" is good PR and doesn't harm donor profits. Everything else you listed is opposed by donors, so they will never happen while the US is still intact.
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You would have been an awesome President!!
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Yeah, but come on. He and Jill would be social outcasts. They'd never get invited to another cocktail party, and be banned from Martha's Vineyard.
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We should never have had a shortage because one plant at one company closed. Our Presidents, Attorneys General and FTC have failed to address price fixing and monopolies for 20 years. Last real antitrust action was 2001.
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He could do all those things. Imagine being naïve enough to think he ever would.
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He could but he won't. For crying out loud he's been wrong about everything since he first arrived in D.C. 49 years ago. I mean if he threw darts at a board blindfolded or flipped a coin he would be right more often.
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The Congress makes laws and the executive branch implements them. The executive doesn’t make laws.
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That is way too much power in the hands of one person.
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That's not how the DPA works. Not sure if you actually know that or you're just being intentionally obtuse.
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You know who else could make college affordable? Colleges.
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