{"id":1500278,"date":"2022-06-01T17:16:40","date_gmt":"2022-06-01T21:16:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1500278"},"modified":"2022-06-01T17:16:51","modified_gmt":"2022-06-01T21:16:51","slug":"biden-says-he-wasnt-aware-how-intense-baby-formula-shortage-was-until-april-months-after-recall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-says-he-wasnt-aware-how-intense-baby-formula-shortage-was-until-april-months-after-recall\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden Says He Wasn\u2019t Aware \u2018How Intense\u2019 Baby Formula Shortage Was Until April \u2013 Months After Recall"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">34<\/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-says-he-wasnt-aware-how-intense-baby-formula-shortage-was-until-april-months-after-recall%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=1500278&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>President Joe Biden said Wednesday he wasn\u2019t aware of the depths of the baby formula shortage until April \u2013 months after Abbott Nutrition issued recalls of its products and shut down its Michigan facility.<\/p>\n<p>Biden made the remark following a virtual meeting with major infant formula manufacturers. During the meeting, multiple executives noted that they knew there would be a huge <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/05\/23\/abc-reporter-terry-moran-blames-joe-biden-baby-formula-shortage\/\">problem<\/a> as soon as Abbott Nutrition, the country\u2019s largest baby formula manufacturer, issued recalls and shut down.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe knew from the very beginning that this would be a very serious event,\u201d one executive said during the meeting.<\/p>\n<p>Abbott Nutrition issued a <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/05\/28\/opinion-joe-biden-baby-formula-supply-chain-basile\/\">recall<\/a> back in February and subsequently shuttered its plant in Sturgis, Michigan, CNBC <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2022\/05\/12\/us-to-boost-baby-formula-imports-to-ease-shortage-after-abbott-nutrition-recall.html\">reported.<\/a>\u00a0Despite manufacturers being immediately aware of the impact this would have on baby formula across the U.S., the president admitted he wasn\u2019t aware until later.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t think anyone anticipated the impact of the shutdown of one facility,\u201d Biden first said Wednesday. \u201cOnce we learned of the extent of it, and how broad it was, we\u2019ve kicked everything in the gear [sic]. And I think we\u2019re on the way to be able to completely solve the problem.\u201d <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/05\/18\/joe-biden-invokes-defense-production-act-baby-formula-shortage\/\">(RELATED:\u00a0Biden Invokes Defense Production Act Amid Nationwide Baby Formula Shortage)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>WATCH:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>When pressed on the fact that multiple executives had just noted they knew immediately that there would be problems from the facility shutting down, Biden declared that \u201cthey did, but I didn\u2019t\u201d before going on to say he wasn\u2019t aware of the depths of the problem until \u201cearly April.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHere\u2019s the deal,\u201d Biden <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2022-06-01\/biden-confronts-formula-shortage-getting-worse-after-us-action\">said<\/a>. \u201cI became aware of this problem sometime in early April, about how intense it was. We did everything in our power from that point on.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre maintained that the administration has \u201cbeen working on this issue since day one of the recall.\u201d She wouldn\u2019t directly answer when asked when, exactly, the White House was informed of the crisis, later reiterating that the government \u201chas been working on this since the recall.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t have the timeline on that,\u201d Jean-Pierre said after being asked a second time for a specific timeline.<\/p>\n<p>Biden\u2019s remarks muddy the waters on when, exactly, the administration was made aware of the crisis. Brian Deese, director of the National Economic Council, also <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/05\/13\/brian-deese-biden-administration-knew-formula-shortage-february\/\">said<\/a> in May that \u201cthe administration has been on this from the get-go.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Joe Biden said Wednesday he wasn\u2019t aware of the depths of the baby formula shortage until April \u2013 months after Abbott Nutrition issued recalls of its products and shut<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":125,"featured_media":2315279,"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-1500278","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\/1500278","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\/125"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1500278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1500278\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1500278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1500278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1500278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}