{"id":1500442,"date":"2022-06-01T19:44:44","date_gmt":"2022-06-01T23:44:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1500442"},"modified":"2022-06-01T19:44:49","modified_gmt":"2022-06-01T23:44:49","slug":"jean-pierre-unable-to-explain-why-biden-was-only-informed-about-extent-of-baby-formula-crisis-in-april","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/jean-pierre-unable-to-explain-why-biden-was-only-informed-about-extent-of-baby-formula-crisis-in-april\/","title":{"rendered":"Jean-Pierre Unable To Explain Why Biden Was Only Informed About Extent Of Baby Formula Crisis In April"},"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%2Fjean-pierre-unable-to-explain-why-biden-was-only-informed-about-extent-of-baby-formula-crisis-in-april%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=1500442&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>White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre suggested Wednesday that the administration made moves to aid the baby formula prior to making President Joe Biden aware of the crisis.<\/p>\n<p>After a virtual meeting with major <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/05\/20\/insulting-american-parents-biden-administration-fumbled-baby-formula-shortage\/\">infant<\/a> formula manufacturers, Biden <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/06\/01\/joe-biden-wasnt-aware-depth-baby-formula-shortage-april\/\">admitted<\/a> that he\u00a0wasn\u2019t aware of the depths of the baby formula shortage until \u201cearly April\u201d \u2013 months after Abbott Nutrition issued recalls of its products and shut down its Michigan facility. Jean-Pierre faced a barrage of questions on the subject shortly afterwards, and maintained that the administration has \u201cbeen working on this issue since day one of the recall.\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>While she maintained that the government as a whole was responding to the situation as soon as the recall occurred, Jean\u2013Pierre was unable to address why Biden wasn\u2019t informed of the problem sooner. The timeline laid out by the White House combined with Biden\u2019s remark indicates that officials were working on the problem unbeknownst to the president \u2013 a point brought up by NBC News\u2019 White House Correspondent Kelly O\u2019Donnell.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou\u2019re now sort of saying that the White House was operating on this without the president being aware of or directing those actions, and so \u2026 I think we\u2019re all trying to understand the information flow and the decision making when there is a crises that rises to the White House\u2019s involvement,\u201d O\u2019Donnell said during Wednesday\u2019s press briefing.<\/p>\n<p><strong>WATCH:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>After wondering whether Jean\u2013Pierre was \u201cquestioning the April date\u201d given by Biden \u2013 to which the press secretary said she was not \u2013 O\u2019Donnell then asked for confirmation that the administration was admitting that the White House as a whole was \u201cengaged\u201d on the <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/05\/23\/fda-baby-formula-shortage-europe-imports-biden-admin\/\">issue<\/a> prior to Biden himself being briefed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRight, which is not an unusual thing, as you know,\u201d Jean\u2013Pierre confirmed. \u201cThis is a very common way of operation, way of moving \u2013 nothing unusual about this. You\u2019re asking me to confirm something [the timeline] and I was in my office, I did not actually hear what the president said.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat I\u2019m trying to say is that his [Biden\u2019s] team \u2013 on very high levels, who run his policy offices, who run his department \u2013 have been working on this since day one,\u201d she added before reiterating that \u201cit\u2019s not uncommon\u201d for situations like this to occur.<\/p>\n<p>Later on in the briefing, Jean\u2013Pierre was <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PhilipWegmann\/status\/1532116026867036165?s=20&#038;t=u72xIk2HiCk7VQYH3tUiww\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">asked<\/a> in general, how serious a situation must be for it to be brought to the president\u2019s attention. The press secretary issued a long-winded answer, reiterating that the White House has been <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/05\/13\/brian-deese-biden-administration-knew-formula-shortage-february\/\">involved<\/a> in the crisis since day one and that \u201cthere are always multiple crises\u201d occurring.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre suggested Wednesday that the administration made moves to aid the baby formula prior to making President Joe Biden aware of the crisis.After a virtual<\/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-1500442","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\/1500442","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=1500442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1500442\/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=1500442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1500442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1500442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}