Pentagon Asks Carmakers to Boost Weapons Production

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  Washington dusts off its World War II playbook, asking manufacturers like GM and Ford to ramp up weapons production.

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  Plus, why pricier fuel is putting Spirit Airlines' future in doubt.

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  And Europe drafts a plan to protect the Strait of Hormuz after fighting stops,

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  ignoring President Trump's appeal for immediate help.

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  The chance is that he sees this plan.

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  That Europe is cooked up as something of a nothing burger and that it actually ends up just irating him

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  further and further alienating the U.S.

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  From Europe.

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  It's Thursday, April 16th.

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  I'm Luke Vargas for The Wall Street Journal,

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  and here is the AM edition of What 's News, the top headlines and business stories moving your world today.

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  Trump administration is pressing U.S. Manufacturers to massively boost weapons production,

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  framing the push as a matter of national security.

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  We 're exclusively reporting that senior defense officials have held wide-ranging talks with executives at Ford,

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  GM, GE Aerospace, and Oshkosh as part of the latest effort to put military manufacturing

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  on what Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has called a wartime footing.

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  Lawmakers and the Pentagon have been concerned about manufacturing capacity since the U.S.

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  And NATO began transferring large quantities of weapons to Ukraine after Russia's full-scale invasion in 2022.

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  The Pentagon's recent request for a $1.5 trillion budget, which would be the department's largest in modern history,

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  calls for major investments in munitions and drone manufacturing.

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