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President Joe Biden invoked emergency powers on Wednesday under the Defense Production Act to boost the production of baby formula, and ordered government agencies to use commercial flights for imports to ease shortages.
The White House stated in a statement that the move would allow domestic manufacturers to source the necessary ingredients and expedite shipments of foreign supplies.
“I know that parents across the country they are worried about finding enough infant formula to feed their babies. As a father and grandfather, I know how stressful that is,” Biden said in a video posted on Twitter.
“Today I am invoking what they call the Defense Production Act to ensure that manufacturers have the necessary ingredients to make safe and healthy infant formula right here at home,” he said. “I have directed the Department of Defense and the Department of Health and Human Services to send planes abroad to pick up infant formula that meets health and safety standards in the United States so we can get it on store shelves faster.”
I’m taking two new steps to increase baby formula supply:
– Invoking the Defense Production Act to increase domestic production
– Launching Operation Fly Formula to use federal planes to fly formula in from abroadWe’re making sure safe formula gets to all who need it. pic.twitter.com/lnkxsaCY6T
— President Biden (@POTUS) May 18, 2022
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“I’m drinking two new steps to increase the supply of baby formula: Invoking the Defense Production Act to increase domestic production and Launching Operation Fly Formula. We are making sure that the safe formula reaches everyone who needs it.”reads the US president’s tweet.
The Nationwide Baby Formula Shortage has become the latest White House crisiswhich is struggling to alleviate supply chain bottlenecks and inflation caused by pandemic distortions in the global economy. Biden is under pressure from both Republicans and Democrats in Congress to act quickly to ease formula shortages.which has been months in the making.
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