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Mr. Söder told the German news agency D.P.A.

He accused Mr. Biden of “misusing the D.P.A. statute every time there’s a temporary product shortage.”

“The water is still flowing knee-high through the streets, parked cars are thrown sideways, and trash and debris are piling up on the sides,” Alexander Bange, the district spokesman in the Märkische region of North Rhine-Westphalia, told the German news agency D.P.A.

In one of his first acts as president, Mr. Biden directed federal agencies to aggressively use the D.P.A. to boost domestic manufacturing of personal protective equipment, and a subsequent executive order seeks to encourage the government purchase of domestically made goods.

Tim Manning, the White House’s Covid-19 supply coordinator, said the administration would announce a number of new D.P.A. contracts for personal protective equipment in the coming weeks, but that the larger supply-chain issues would take longer to address.