USSA: Biden's Repeated Use Of This Wartime Power Is Harming Companies - And Hurting The Economy

By Roberta Elliot | Tuesday, 14 June 2022 12:00 PM
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USSA: Biden's Repeated Use Of This Wartime Power Is Harming Companies - And Hurting The Economy

President Biden’s use of the Defense Production Act to advance the renewable energy industry, increase vaccine production and resolve a national shortage of baby formula has outraged critics who explain he has overstepped his authority and is increasingly relying on a power that should be earmarked for emergencies.

Republicans and other critics blame Biden for using the act for his own political salvation. They say the President’s policies are partly to blame for record-high energy prices and other crises, including the formula shortage.

“He’s using it excessively, he’s using it in a fashion that’s not going to help, and he’s using it to fix crises that he created,” Rep. Chris Stewart, Utah Republican, explained to The Washington Times.

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The law, enacted in 1950 at the beginning of the Korean War, gives the President “a broad set of authorities to influence the domestic industry in the interest of national defense,” according to the Congressional Research Service.

The Biden Administration gathered the DPA on June 6 “to accelerate the domestic production of clean energy.”

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The move will facilitate the production of solar panels and other energy-saving equipment like heat pumps and insulation. The administration announced these measures are required to lower costs and reduce the country’s demand for fossil fuels.

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In May, Biden announced two DPA authorizations to help replenish the supply of infant formula. Much of the product had vanished from store shelves following a major recall and prolonged factory closure caused partly by a slow-acting Food and Drug Administration.

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Weeks earlier, Biden invoked the DPA to speed up domestic production of electric vehicle batteries, possibly giving companies access to hundreds of millions of dollars to mine for the required minerals.

The President noted the need to guarantee “a robust, resilient, sustainable and environmentally responsible domestic industrial base” for the country’s clean energy economy.

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Sen. Patrick J. Toomey, a Pennsylvania Republican who is not seeking reelection, announced that the President was wasting taxpayer money to advance his climate change agenda.

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“If the administration keeps misusing the DPA for nondefense purposes, Congress must curtail it,” Toomey stated this month.

President Biden started using the DPA two months into his presidency. He invoked the act to bolster supplies to produce Pfizer’s Coronavirus vaccine and increase the inventory of at-home COVID-19 tests and personal protective equipment, like gloves and masks.

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Some Republicans at the time claimed that President Trump and Congress already had funded and put much of the infrastructure into place to produce vaccines and PPE.

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The President is using the law routinely and far too broadly, critics say.

“He’s using it much less sparingly than it ought to be used,” Maiya Clark, a senior research associate at the conservative Heritage Foundation’s Center for National Defense, explained to The Washington Times.

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