- GOP Representative Kat Cammack posted an image of fully stocked baby food shelves in migrant centers at the border
- She juxtaposed this with an image of empty shelves where baby formula was supposed to be at American grocery stores
- ‘This is what America last looks like,’ the congresswoman lamented
- Biden directed his administration to prioritize manufacturing and restocking store shelves with baby formula as parents desperately search for it
- Biden met with both manufacturers and retailers of baby formula
- White House defended the closure of the Abbott plant but officials couldn’t say when it would reopen or when more formula wiill be empty grocery store shelves
- ‘There were babies who died from taking this formula so they were doing their jobs,’ White House press secretary Jen Psaki said of the FDA’s work
- Lawmakers will hold a hearing in two weeks on infant formula shortages
States hit hardest by the baby formula shortage revealed: More than 50% of products are out of stock at stores in Tennessee, Texas…
- New data reveals the scale of the baby formula shortage hitting the United States, where 98 percent of the product is domestically made
- Tennessee is the hardest-hit state, followed by Delaware and Texas, while Colorado, New Mexico and Indiana are the least affected
- The shortage is due to pandemic supply chain issues coupled with a February halt on production at one of the largest factories, in Michigan, following a hygiene scare
- Joe Biden on Thursday met with executives from several producers, plus leaders of Target and Walmart, to address the shortages, and is looking at ways of bringing in imports from Mexico, Chile and the Netherlands
- Frustrated parents, meanwhile, are resorting to driving around their states scouring stores and begging on online forums for help
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