On 5/12/2022, during press conference, House GOP Chair Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.), the No. 3 leader of the House GOP and a new mom herself, called for new measures to address the shortage, which she blamed on the president, said “The administration should have had a plan to deal with this issue. This is not a Third World country.” She blasts Biden Admin for laughing about formula shortage.
“As a new mother, I understand the severity of this challenge. My son Sam is nine months old. He is formula fed.” Stefanik said at the press conference that the shelves have been fairly empty, even in my trip to the grocery store in upstate New York. Babies have been put to bed hungry while parents are trying to find alternative formulas that are often hard to find. This is not a Third World country. This should never happen in the United States of America.
Rep. Cathy Mcmorris Rodgers this is a matter of life or death. “We shouldn’t be rationing formula to keep babies fed,” Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers, Washington Republican, told reporters while flanked by a group of her GOP colleagues. “I talked to one mom who has a baby with allergies, and it’s extremely difficult. She feels like she’s playing Russian roulette as she goes to the store.”
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene food security is national security.
Republican U.S. Rep. Kat Cammack said that “pallets” of baby formula are being delivered to an illegal immigrant detention center in Texas, a Florida lawmaker who was elected in 2020, indicated in a pair of Facebook videos Wednesday that a Border Patrol agent at the Ursula facility in McAllen sent her photos showing pallets of baby formula and other food for infants that had been delivered to the detention center.
“They are sending pallets — pallets — of baby formula to the border,” Cammack said. “Meanwhile, in our own district at home, we cannot find baby formula.” “The first photo is from this morning at the Ursula Processing Center at the U.S. border. Shelves and pallets packed with baby formula,” she said. “The second is from a shelf right here at home. Formula is scarce. This is what America last looks like.”
Rep. Stephanie Bice calls on speaker Pelosi to address the baby formula crisis. Two House Republicans, Reps. Randy Feenstra of Iowa and Stephanie Bice of Oklahoma, introduced the Formula Act Wednesday, which would direct the FDA to establish and communicate clear standards to Congress about how it regulates baby formula. The legislation would allow the U.S. to import infant formula from abroad, and the legislation would allow the U.S. to expand domestic supply, according to the two lawmakers.
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GOP press: laughing formula shortage, empty baby formula shelves, border center migrants ‘pallets’ of hard-to-find formula.