Trump, Biden American-Made Drug Plans Overlap A Bit

By John Wilkerson / July 8, 2020 at 4:41 PM
As White House officials tease a buy-American executive order, Joe Biden this week issued his plan for bringing pharmaceutical manufacturing back to the United States, and some of the general principles of the two plans overlap. Both President Donald Trump and presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Biden plan to use the Defense Production Act to require that drug companies make drugs domestically and both call for using the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority to fund domestic drug production, though Biden...


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