President Biden has raised new questions about when he learned about the baby formula shortage and whether he could have acted sooner.
June 01, 2022, 9:12 PMPresident Joe Biden speaks during a virtual meeting with administration officials and major infant formula manufacturers to urge an increase in infant formula production and ramp up imports of formula through Operation Fly Formula, in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building in Washington, D.C., on June 1, 2022.
"We knew from the very beginning this would be a very serious event," Reckitt's executive, Robert Cleveland, said. He said his company had reached out to retail partners like Target and Walmart "immediately" to warn them and to start troubleshooting available inventory to ensure they could get what they had onto shelves.
Since U.S. manufacturers had just told him they had anticipated the impact, reporters asked Biden why he, too, didn't see this coming.Later, at the White House briefing, press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre was pummeled with more questions. "I am saying that we have been working on this. We, as a whole of government approach, have been working on this since the recall, which was in February," she repeated. "That is what I'm saying. I'm talking about internally, not just the agencies, not just FDA, USDA, but also we have been working on this for months, for months. And we've taken this incredibly seriously.
Earlier Wednesday, in what was intended to highlight a positive development ahead of Biden's event, the administration announced several additional planeloads of formula are set to get airfreighted in from overseas as part of the president's "Operation Fly Formula."
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