For days, executives at the industrial company 3M gave Trump administration officials shifting explanations for why they couldn't send a larger share of the company's global production of N95 masks to the US. Export restrictions prevented them from shipping to the US, they said at first, before explaining they didn't want to jeopardize foreign business relationships.
As the executives resisted, the top White House officials handling the case, senior adviser Jared Kushner and trade adviser Peter Navarro, grew exasperated. On Thursday, they went to the Oval Office to urge President Donald Trump to invoke the Defense Production Act and force the company to ship tens of millions of additional masks to the US in response to the coronavirus outbreak that had already killed more than 6,000 Americans.
"I always think of Peter a little bit like a cruise missile," said one senior administration official."Like a missile, you just gotta make sure the missile is well-guided."Kushner swoops inJared Kushner, senior adviser, has taken over large swaths of the White House's coronavirus response eforts. While Navarro plays the heavy hitter with the private sector, Kushner has focused on bolstering the government's supply chains.
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