{"id":1477223,"date":"2022-05-16T18:00:27","date_gmt":"2022-05-16T22:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1477223"},"modified":"2022-05-16T18:00:31","modified_gmt":"2022-05-16T22:00:31","slug":"top-biden-official-claims-administration-knew-about-baby-formula-shortage-last-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/top-biden-official-claims-administration-knew-about-baby-formula-shortage-last-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Top Biden Official Claims Administration Knew About Baby Formula Shortage Last Year"},"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\">24<\/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%2Ftop-biden-official-claims-administration-knew-about-baby-formula-shortage-last-year%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=1477223&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-29-1.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.3.0\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>President Joe Biden claimed on May 13 that his administration could have been better prepared for the national baby formula shortage if they had been better \u201cmind-readers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, his top official at the Department of Health and Human Services appeared to contradict that statement, claiming that his department and the Food and Drug Administration had known about the issue since last year.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, CNN asked HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra if he was \u201csatisfied\u201d with the government\u2019s response to the issue. The HHS chief affirmed that the administration was moving with urgency and has been since \u201clast year.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFrom everything I\u2019ve known, the FDA has kept me apprised of this from last year,\u201d he responded. \u201cWe have been moving as quickly as we can.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">CNN: &#8220;You are satisfied with the government&#8217;s response throughout [the baby formula shortage]?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>HHS Sec. Xavier Becerra: &#8220;FDA has kept me apprised of this from LAST YEAR. We have been moving as quickly as we can&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/5WRZa5chYg\">pic.twitter.com\/5WRZa5chYg<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 RNC Research (@RNCResearch) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RNCResearch\/status\/1526239189683019779?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 16, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Becerra made it sound as though the Biden administration knew that this was going to be a problem longer than the president had recently implied.<\/p>\n<p>On May 13, the same day Biden had lamented his administration\u2019s ability to see the future, the president made it sound as if the emergency took them by surprise, as it did parents across the country.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ll answer the baby formula question because, all of a sudden, it\u2019s on the front page of every newspaper,\u201d Biden <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/briefing-room\/speeches-remarks\/2022\/05\/13\/remarks-by-president-biden-highlighting-state-and-local-leaders-who-are-investing-american-rescue-plan-funding\/?category=all&#038;v=accessibility#:~:text=THE%20PRESIDENT%3A%20Well%2C%20three%20questions,%E2%80%94%20I%20%E2%80%94%20be%20responded%20to.\">said<\/a> in response to one reporter asking about the emergency. Combined with his mindreader comment, the president gave the impression that the government was taken by surprise by the shortage.<\/p>\n<p>Biden\u2019s own White House website <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/briefing-room\/statements-releases\/2022\/05\/12\/fact-sheet-president-biden-announces-additional-steps-to-address-infant-formula-shortage\/\">says<\/a> that on February 17, \u201cthe largest infant formula manufacturer in the country\u2014Abbott Nutrition\u2014initiated a voluntary recall of several lines of powdered formula.\u201d The White House claimed the federal government mobilized into action to get baby products onto the market as soon as they became aware it was an issue.<\/p>\n<p>Yet varying reports <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wkyc.com\/article\/news\/verify\/health-verify\/yes-there-is-baby-formula-shortage-us-heres-why\/536-5e945355-90bf-4d72-9c30-d667bd403449\">also indicate<\/a> that the baby formula shortage had been ongoing since the COVID-19 pandemic due to supply chain issues caused in part by a lack of workers and baby formula plants shutting down for medical reasons.<\/p>\n<p>A company called Datasembly ran an analysis which showed that \u201cshowed that supply was \u2018relatively stable for the first half of 2021. Then, the out-of-stock rate for baby formula hit 23% in January 2022 and has continued to climb, \u201d according to WKYC.<\/p>\n<p>That would imply that the shortages began prior to Abbott\u2019s plant closing down in February.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cInflation, supply chain shortages, and product recalls have brought an unprecedented amount of volatility for baby formula,\u201d Datasembly founder and CEO Ben Reich also said in the report released in April. \u201cWe expect to continue to see the baby formula category being dramatically affected by these conditions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In all the general uneasiness gives many the impression that the Biden team was simply unprepared for this emergency.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJoe Biden has now fully proven he is not only America Last but also Family Last,\u201d American Principles Project President Terry Schilling told the Daily Wire in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt nearly every turn, his administration has actively undermined the interests of families. On education, for example, their focus has long been on woke indoctrination rather than real improvement \u2014 and when parents complained, the feds outrageously <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/biden-blasted-for-weaponizing-doj-against-parents-speaking-out-against-critical-race-theory\">targeted<\/a> them as \u2018domestic terrorists,&#8217;\u201d Schilling claimed.<\/p>\n<p>The president of the pro-family think tank added that Biden\u2019s failed response to the crisis is typical from the Left.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo it should come as no surprise that Biden and Democrats failed to take seriously the risk of a baby formula shortage,\u201d Schilling said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPerhaps they were too focused on preserving the legality of killing unborn babies to give the looming crisis their full attention,\u201d he pondered. \u201cBut they can be assured American parents have been paying attention, and there will most certainly be consequences when those parents hit the polls later this year,\u201d Schilling said in reference to the upcoming midterm elections, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-10722927\/Top-Biden-pollster-warns-Republican-bloodbath-2022.html\">which polls indicate will be a<\/a>\u00a0bloodbath for Democrats.<\/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>President Joe Biden claimed on May 13 that his administration could have been better prepared for the national baby formula shortage if they had been better \u201cmind-readers.\u201dOn Monday, his top<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":326,"featured_media":1483338,"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-1477223","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\/1477223","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\/326"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1477223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1477223\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1483338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1477223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1477223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1477223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}