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Lori Trahan: “The Defense Production Act is a perfect example of a tool…”

Featuring: Lori Trahan, Democratic | U.S. House Massachusetts, 3rd Congressional District

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Daily Pulse: June 15, 2026 (Congresswoman Trahan Talks AI)

Published | Video Starts at 24:50

And I, my hunch is that's where we're going to have to go with AI, whether the big tech giants like it or not and, and ultimately whether. And we have like. And we have some of those tools already. The Defense Production Act is a perfect example of a tool that the federal government has to intervene with private industry. We did it for the good of, of our public health when we used it to get a vaccine in record time in our country's history during COVID So I do think that there are tools that exist. (24:50–24:59)

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Asserts that the Defense Production Act allows federal intervention in private industry.

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