What does the Defense Production Act really do?

President Trump announced via Twitter that he was advocating the Defense Production Act. What exactly is that? Chris Cillizza explains.

SOURCES AND READ MORE:
What is the Defense Production Act?
https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/24/politics/defense-production-act-coronavirus/index.html

Defense Production Act 1950: History, Authorities, and Congressional Considerations
https://fas.org/sgp/crs/natsec/R43767.pdf

At Portland Hospitals, “N95 masks look like gold”
https://www.wweek.com/news/2020/03/25/in-portland-hospitals-n95-masks-are-like-gold/

Trump is defending pressure measures to use the Defense Production Act
https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/20/politics/defense-production-act-trump/index.html

Remarks by President Trump, Vice President Pence and Coronavirus Task Force, Press Briefing
https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/remarks-president-trump-vice-president-pence-members-coronavirus-task-force-press-briefing-8/

Trump has called for the Defense Production Act to require GMs to make sprinklers
https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/27/politics/general-motors-ventilators-defense-production-act/index.html

March 27 coronavirus news
https://www.cnn.com/world/live-news/coronavirus-outbreak-03-27-20-intl-hnk/h_7f5ff54e40c08e072d484863f4f03759

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