On ABC’s This Week, during the “PowerHouse Roundtable” segment on the upcoming midterm elections, co-anchor Martha Raddatz referenced the Biden administration’s decision this week to invoke the Defense Production Act in order to help solve the baby formula shortage which has reportedly landed at least four babies in the hospital.
“I want to move on to the infant formula, the military to the rescue once again” Raddatz said before skeptically reporting how “the White House said they’d been working on this for months and months but it didn’t appear that way since we got to such a crisis point.”
Senior national correspondent Terry Moran responded that “it sure doesn’t” seem like the Biden administration has been working on solving the crisis “for months.”
“The baby formula issue is shocking to Americans, it’s shocking. The political ramifications of it are profound, this can’t be our country, where babies are at risk of dying, I mean, if this goes on for a few more weeks it’s possible we’re gonna lose someone in this country because of this” Moran noted before tearing into the Biden administration for their incompetence:
It was February that the Biden administration discovered about it. Whatever happens after that, regardless of the results of the investigations, the Oval Office is the final stop.
Moran rightly couldn’t understand “why somebody at the FDA didn’t call the Chief of Staff and say you know we had to shut down this baby formula plant” and explained that “because of the nature of the American economy and major American corporations, where there’s just no wiggle room at all because efficiency, maximizing profits you take one piece out and the system collapses.”
Situations are getting so bad in America that Joe Biden is being called out by the media for his incompetence and recklessness, from the forty-year high inflation to the severe shortage of baby formula.
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ABC’s This Week
5/22/2022
Eastern at 9:50 AMMARTHA RADDATZ : Terry, let me move to the infant formula. The military will come to my rescue again. The White House said they’d been working on this for months and months but it didn’t appear that way since we got to such a crisis point.
TERRY MORAN It’s shocking that the baby formula controversy is so shocking for Americans. The political ramifications of it are profound, this can’t be our country, where babies are at risk of dying, I mean, if this goes on for a few more weeks it’s possible we’re gonna lose someone in this country because of this. In February, the Biden Administration was aware of it. No matter what happened after the investigation, all the blame rests with the Oval Office. The Chief of Staff didn’t phone the FDA to inform him that the baby formula plant had been shut down. It was because the American economy is so rigid and there are major American corporations. If one of these companies takes too much, the entire system will collapse.
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