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Trump administration issued a memorandum waiving statutory requirements under Section 303 of the Defense Production Act of 1950. The waiver allows the government to bypass certain legal requirements in invoking defense production authorities. The action expands executive power to mobilize industrial capacity without standard congressional or statutory constraints.
On May 31, 2017, President Trump signed Determination 2017-13115, which suspended the limitations imposed by the Jerusalem Embassy Act of 1995. The act had previously required the State Department to move the U.S. Embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, but included a presidential waiver allowing suspension on national security grounds. Trump's determination invoked this waiver, suspending the requirement to relocate the embassy. The suspension remained in effect until December 2017, when Trump reversed course and announced the embassy would move to Jerusalem.