Five Not-To-Be-Missed Stories . . .

Trump Administration Moving Swiftly to Address Ventilator Shortages -USA Today “In a page taken out of the World War II playbook, the Ford Motor Co., with General Electric, is racing to produce an additional 50,000 new ventilators in 100 days at a converted auto plant in Michigan,” writes Peter Navarro, Director of the White House Office of Trade and Manufacturing Policy.    🎬 Updated guidelines: 30 days to slow the spread!

A Marshall Plan for Main Street -Washington Examiner “Lower taxes and fewer regulations unleashed the best economy in half a century and gave small businesses the means to hire more employees, pay higher wages, and reinvest capital. These conditions still exist but are being seriously challenged by the coronavirus pandemic,” House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy writes. The Paycheck Protection Program, already up and running, will help small businesses weather this storm.   Ivanka Trump: Bold action to “preserve our nation’s small businesses”

Team USA: 50 Companies Join Trump's War on Coronavirus -Washington Examiner “Some 50 major American firms have joined the national war on the coronavirus, many volunteering to shift their focus and even assembly lines to deliver needed supplies to doctors, hospitals, first responders and others on the front lines,” Paul Bedard reports. “Most said that they answered President Trump’s call for help.”

USNS Comfort Arrives in New York City -Politico “The USNS Comfort arrived in New York on Monday, bringing a massive Navy hospital ship to help relieve city hospitals overwhelmed by coronavirus patients,” Erin Durkin writes. The ship “was undergoing maintenance when President Donald Trump pledged to deploy it to New York, which was expected to take two weeks but was sped up to eight days.”   🎬 Watch: Hope arrives to the ports of LA and NYC

Pols Face a Coronavirus Test -The Wall Street Journal “Crises have a way of separating the leaderlike wheat from the opportunistic chaff,” Kimberly Strassel writes. “Example: The Trump administration spent this week distributing ventilators, standing up small-business loans, dispatching hospital ships, erecting alternate care facilities . . . Speaker Nancy Pelosi spent this week setting up a new House committee to investigate Donald Trump.”