{"id":1476671,"date":"2022-05-16T12:14:55","date_gmt":"2022-05-16T16:14:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1476671"},"modified":"2022-05-16T12:14:59","modified_gmt":"2022-05-16T16:14:59","slug":"bidens-emergency-baby-formula-website-has-been-a-total-disaster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bidens-emergency-baby-formula-website-has-been-a-total-disaster\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden\u2019s Emergency Baby Formula Website Has Been A Total Disaster"},"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\">20<\/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%2Fbidens-emergency-baby-formula-website-has-been-a-total-disaster%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=1476671&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><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2022\/05\/Untitled-design-26-2.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.3.0\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>In online nomenclature, if a video or photo \u201cbreaks the internet,\u201d then it means that the viral object is wildly popular and ubiquitous across the web. Unfortunately, that isn\u2019t what we mean when we say the Biden administration\u2019s website for parents seeking baby formula \u201cbroke the internet.\u201d That new site is such a disaster that even CNN is blasting the darned thing for failing to work as advertised.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday, then White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2022\/05\/16\/politics\/baby-formula-testing-biden-administration-resources\/index.html\">announced<\/a> that the Department of Health and Human Services <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hhs.gov\/formula\/index.html\">created a new tool for<\/a> parents that would serve as an easy access guide for how to locate baby formula products as the nation suffers a shortage of the substance necessary to feed so many babies.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe recognize that parents have a lot of questions,\u201d Psaki said to reporters on Friday. CNN noted that the website was supposed to be a one-stop-shop for \u201cresources and places that parents can go to obtain the formula, including contacts with companies, food banks (and) health care providers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But alas, when that was tested out, CNN was met with frustration and long wait times just to get some answers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe exercise resulted in apologetic customer service representatives, one hold time that lasted well over an hour, and serious challenges in finding baby formula through some of the main suggestions listed on the new HHS website,\u201d CNN claimed.<\/p>\n<p>For example, the government website lists the phone number for Abbott\u2019s consumer hotline. When CNN called that number with inquiries, they were told that the company does not answer questions over the phone.<\/p>\n<p>The government website also pointed folks to Reckitt\u2019s customer service line. The reporter was placed on hold for 72 minutes and concluded that that \u201coption could drive some anxious parents over the edge.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Psaki presented the website as if it were a solution for families. Instead, it appears that the website established by the Biden team merely provides easily googleable contacts for companies.<\/p>\n<p>In turn, those corporations gave little to no insight on how to find the baby formula in the meantime. The situation overall might leave some parents feeling helpless, as it seems neither the government nor the private sector wants to take leadership on the issue.<\/p>\n<p>Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg, a relatively new parent, more or less said that the problem is out of the administration\u2019s hands.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe government does not make baby formula, nor should it. Companies make formula, and one of those companies \u2014 a company which, by the way, seems to have 40% market share \u2014 messed up and is unable to confirm that a plant, a major plant, is safe and free of contamination,\u201d Buttigieg <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/baby-formula-shortage-biden-administration-pete-buttigieg-face-the-nation\/\">said<\/a> on Sunday. \u201cSo the most important thing to do right now, of course, is to get that plant in Michigan up and running safely.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA plant shutting down because a company can\u2019t assure that it is physically safe from contamination is the responsibility of the company,\u201d he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/baby-formula-shortage-biden-administration-pete-buttigieg-face-the-nation\/\">added<\/a>. \u201cThe responsibility of the regulator is to ensure, as they take steps to get it ready, that it will in fact be safe when it comes back online.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>CBS noted that \u201cButtigieg said the administration has taken numerous steps to alleviate the scramble for parents, including creating more flexibility for the WIC program and exploring the importation of formula from abroad.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Robert Califf, commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kaitlancollins\/status\/1526170275380969481?s=20&#038;t=nbIygl-mLWuk62EjETXLXw\">also told<\/a> CNN on Sunday that he anticipates \u201cthat within, you know, a few weeks we will have things back to normal.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAsked if it could have been prevented, he said, \u2018There are always things that we could do better,&#8217;\u201d CNN\u2019s Kaitlan Collin\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kaitlancollins\/status\/1526170275380969481?s=20&#038;t=nbIygl-mLWuk62EjETXLXw\">noted<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Buttigieg\u2019s and Califf\u2019s responses could leave many with the impression that the federal government isn\u2019t taking on the issue with the urgency that\u2019s needed. Beyond that, the Biden administration\u2019s website has left some feeling that the president\u2019s response is a bit antiquated.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is such a 2010 solution,\u201d former Trump Treasury appointee Will Upton <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/wupton\/status\/1526191343462137856\">tweeted<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>The views expressed in this piece are the author\u2019s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In online nomenclature, if a video or photo \u201cbreaks the internet,\u201d then it means that the viral object is wildly popular and ubiquitous across the web. 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