{"id":1474213,"date":"2022-05-13T10:29:55","date_gmt":"2022-05-13T14:29:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1474213"},"modified":"2022-05-13T10:30:03","modified_gmt":"2022-05-13T14:30:03","slug":"biden-admin-knew-the-baby-formula-shortage-was-coming-in-february","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-admin-knew-the-baby-formula-shortage-was-coming-in-february\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden Admin Knew The Baby Formula Shortage Was Coming In February"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbiden-admin-knew-the-baby-formula-shortage-was-coming-in-february%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1474213&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p>The Biden administration knew about the baby formula shortage as early as February, the director of the National Economic Council Brian Deese told CNN\u2019s \u201cNew Day\u201d on Friday morning.<\/p>\n<p>Deese said the administration is working around the clock to tackle the issue from every angle possible, noting the administration is trying to give retailers \u201cmore flexibility on the types of formulas that they can sell.\u201d Deese did not provide an estimate of how long the administration anticipates the shortage will last, but urged families to call their healthcare provider if they need help.<\/p>\n<p>Host Kaitlan Collins then asked Deese what his response to Republican criticism that the administration didn\u2019t act fast enough is.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe administration has been on this from the get-go. A lot of this emanated from a plant in Michigan that was producing formula that didn\u2019t meet safety standards,\u201d Deese said.<\/p>\n<p>Collins then asked when the administration first became aware of the shortage.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs a parent, and with friends and colleagues, we were aware that people were starting to have trouble in stores, but we were aware of this from when the FDA had to take its action back in February, with Abbott and with the steps in the Michigan facility. And we have had a team on this from the FDA and in the interagency process since then,\u201d Deese said.<\/p>\n<p>Collins noted how several complaints were made to the FDA in the preceding months.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo I\u2019m wondering if the sense inside the White House is that the FDA moved quickly enough on this issue?\u201d Collins asked. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/05\/12\/formula-babies-border-migrants-supply\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: Lawmaker Says Migrants Are Getting \u2018Pallets\u2019 Of Baby Formula Amid Nationwide Shortage)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWell, those are independent scientific judgments that I will leave to the FDA. What I can tell you is that they took action to put in place that recall, and we have been working closely on this issue, in the wake of that recall, to try to address the impending impacts of that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Deese added that \u201call options are on the table,\u201d and the administration is focused on how they can ramp up production and get more formula to retailers quickly. Deese said the administration was also looking into possibly importing <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/05\/12\/jim-banks-letter-dhs-hhs-xavier-becerra-baby-formula-shortage-ending-title-42\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">formula<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>President Joe Biden spoke with formula manufacturers Reckitt and Gerber on Thursday who have stepped up production after Abbott <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/baby-formula-recall-similac-abbott\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">recalled<\/a> powdered formula and subsequently closed its manufacturing facility in Michigan. Reckitt is supplying over 30% more product this year, according to a White House <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/briefing-room\/statements-releases\/2022\/05\/12\/readout-of-president-bidens-virtual-meetings-with-retailers-and-infant-formula-manufacturers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">fact sheet<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>As of April 24, 40% of the top baby formula products at American retailers were out of stock, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/baby-formula-shortage-rationing-national-crisis\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">CBS News<\/a>. Retailers have begun rationing the amount of <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/05\/11\/baby-formula-shortage-supply-stock-cvs-target-walgreens\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">formula<\/a> customers can buy at one time while the average price of formula has jumped 18% over the last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Biden administration knew about the baby formula shortage as early as February, the director of the National Economic Council Brian Deese told CNN\u2019s \u201cNew Day\u201d on Friday morning.Deese said<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":74,"featured_media":1482850,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1474213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1474213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/74"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1474213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1474213\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1482850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1474213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1474213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1474213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}