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Power index: Top 10 Biden appointments affecting freight markets Leaders from across the administration connect supply chain links Top 10 picks influence rail, ocean, highway freight. (Photo: Jim Allen/FreightWaves & The White House) While almost every cabinet department and a host of federal agencies within the executive branch touch freight and supply chains in some way, these 10 recent appointees by President Joe Biden will likely figure most prominently in steering freight transportation policy as Biden’s administration gets underway. The list is in alphabetical order by last na...

Using the Defense Production Act, the U.S. aims to increase its supply of NBR and surgical gloves, according to Tim Manning, national supply chain coordinator for COVID-19 Response Team. The goal is to make 1 billion gloves per month.

To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: Shortly after taking office, the Biden Administration unveiled what it called a “comprehensive,” “coordinated” and “aggressive” National Strategy to confront the COVID-19 pandemic. As a key component of this approach, the President directed federal agencies to use the authorities provided by the Defense Production Act (DPA) to mobilize private industry in response to the national COVID-19 emergency. As explained in our prior client alert, the DPA gives the President the authority (which he may delegate to agencies) to co...

President Biden is raising hopes that he will sharply scale up rapid at-home COVID-19 tests to help control the pandemic, but advocates say far more needs to be done beyond the administration’s early moves.