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Lori Trahan: “We used [the Defense Production Act] to get a vaccine in…”

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 25:04

The Defense Production act is a perfect example of a tool that the federal government has to intervene, you know, with private industry. We did it for the good of, of our public health when We used [the Defense Production Act] to get a vaccine in record time in our country's history during COVID. So I do think that there are tools that exist. I think what we probably have to do is an analysis of what we have and how we're going to structure this going forward. (25:04–25:09)

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Asserts that the Defense Production Act was used to expedite vaccine production during COVID-19.

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