Trump Invokes Defense Production Act to Expand Domestic Gas and Diesel Output
The government will spend $150 million on domestic gas and diesel production as the White House looks to ease consumer pain at the gas pump, according to The Hill.
President Trump invoked the Defense Production Act on Thursday, announcing that the government would spend $150 million toward boosting domestic gas and diesel production, as The Hill's report on the announcement described it. The Hill reported that the White House is looking to "ease consumer pain at the gas pump," and the action was reported in that context.
The Hill reported that the announcement was made in a presidential memorandum issued earlier on Thursday. Its summary states that the president went on to detail the exact terms of the action, but the text available for this report breaks off at that point, so those terms cannot be described here.
The Hill's report was written by Caroline Vakil. The points established by that report are three: the invocation of the Defense Production Act, the $150 million in government spending, and the presidential memorandum through which the action was announced. Each is reported here as The Hill stated it.
The Hill's summary, as available to this desk, contains no further figures, so the allocation of the $150 million and its timing are not known from that text. This story does not speculate on either question.
Because only one outlet's account was reviewed for this story, the details above rest on The Hill's reporting alone. They have not been checked against the memorandum itself or against other news organizations' coverage of the same announcement, and the full terms of the memorandum are not described in the material reviewed here.
Sources: The Hill: Trump announces he'll use Defense Production Act to increase domestic gas production.