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Just curious how did Democrats create the baby formula shortage? Is there another solution to throw at it other than $$?

Just curious how did Democrats create the baby formula shortage? Is there another solution to throw at it other than $$?

It’s administration in charge. Biden continues not to be able to foresee and then manage issues as they arise. The question I have is when did the President know about, from my understanding the first time they the Whitehouse press secretary, Biden or Whitehouse statement release which mentions “Baby Formula” is April.

Here is a timeline of when the FDA got the whistleblower report oct of last year…they started moving on it in February:

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/baby-formula-timeline-plant-posed-risk-fall/story?id=84703748

Could you imagine this same story and timeline under the Trump administration what the press and Dems would be saying? They would be calling for impeachment.

Have the Democrats even had any hearing yet to find out what’s going on?

This administration is completely inept at every level.

All of this points to a bigger problem with the industry itself

How the U.S. got into this baby formula mess (https://www.npr.org/2022/05/19/1099748064/baby-infant-formula-shortages)

The infant formula industry is a multi-billion dollar business dominated by a handful of firms. In the U.S., just four companies control about 90% of the market, including Abbott Nutrition — the firm behind the shuttered Michigan plant.

These companies operate a relatively small number of formula factories in order to maximize efficiency and keep their production costs low.

"They're concentrating production into a few, very large plants but that creates a lot of risk," says Claire Kelloway of the Open Markets Institute, and anti-monopoly think tank. "A huge part of the crisis we're seeing now is from the closure of one plant."

Just curious how did Democrats create the baby formula shortage? Is there another solution to throw at it other than $$?

Yes.

The vote was partisan because Republicans didn't like the fact that the bill did not have the appropriate measures to hold the FDA accountable, as did the bill the Republicans proposed on Wednesday - which would have increased the supply of baby formula, AND establish oversight and accountability at the FDA, rather than just throw $$ at the FDA without fixing the actual problem.

Watching the New York Gerrymandering debacle is something else.

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Yes.

The vote was partisan because Republicans didn't like the fact that the bill did not have the appropriate measures to hold the FDA accountable, as did the bill the Republicans proposed on Wednesday - which would have increased the supply of baby formula, AND establish oversight and accountability at the FDA, rather than just throw $$ at the FDA without fixing the actual problem.

Are you referring to the FORMULA Act?

Are you referring to the FORMULA Act?

Babies Need Formula Now Act, I believe.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/05/19/george-bush-iraq-ukraine-war-speech/

George W. Bush called Iraq war ‘unjustified and brutal.’ He meant Ukraine.


Actually, both statements true.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/05/19/george-bush-iraq-ukraine-war-speech/

George W. Bush called Iraq war ‘unjustified and brutal.’ He meant Ukraine.

Actually, both statements true.

Saw that last night. What a major fuck-up and slip of the tongue.