The White House has given the go-ahead for the production of over 39 million N95 masks using the Defense Production Act.<br />According to Business Insider, the project will cost $133 million.<br />The Department of Defense did not say which companies would be used to make the extra N95 masks.<br />The DPA is a wartime act established in 1950. President Donald Trump first invoked the DPA on March 23.<br />However, its first use was on March 27th, when Trump used it to force General Motors to ramp up ventilator production.<br />On April 2, the president also used it to require 3M to prioritize orders from the Federal Emergency Management Agency for N95 respirators.
