President Donald Trump criticized Basic Motors and its CEO Mary Barra for his or her response to producing wanted ventilators amid the coronavirus pandemic and wanting "prime greenback" for such work.

Trump, in a tweet, stated, "As traditional with 'this' Basic Motors, issues simply by no means appear to work out. They stated they have been going to present us 40,000 a lot wanted Ventilators, 'in a short time'. Now they're saying it should solely be 6000, in late April, they usually need prime greenback. All the time a large number with Mary B. Invoke 'P'."

Within the preliminary tweet, the that means of "Invoke P" wasn't instantly clear. However Trump adopted up with a second one, saying he was referring to invoking the Protection Manufacturing Act that will power corporations to supply such tools. It is unclear if which means he has invoked the...