Biden invokes Defense Production Act to address infant formula shortage, among other actions

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CNN — President Joe Biden announced on Wednesday that his administration would be taking new actions to attempt to alleviate ongoing infant formula shortages in the United States, including invoking the Defense Production Act.

The President is invoking the act – which allows the government more control over industrial production during emergencies – to direct manufacturers of ingredients of formula to prioritize delivery to the manufacturers of formula.

Biden also announced the creation of Operation Fly Formula, which asks that federal agencies, like the Department of Health and Human Services and the Department of Agriculture, utilize the Defense Department’s commercial planes to import formula from abroad.

The Biden administration has been faced with growing questions and criticism for the national formula shortage that has anxious and angry parents hopping from store to store in search of baby food.

https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/18/politics/biden-defense-production-act-baby-formula/index.html

[Lovie777]

1. K & R . . .

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2. Good

[Hekate]

3. Thanks, Joe