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:
The Biden administration knew about it in February. Whatever came afterwards, whatever the investigations determine, the buck stops in the Oval Office.
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.”
From forty year high inflation to the serious baby formula shortage, conditions are becoming so dire in the country that the media is now forced to call Joe Biden out on his reckless policies and incompetence.
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ABC’s This Week
5/22/2022
9:50:11 a.m. EasternMARTHA RADDATZ: And Terry, I want to move on to the infant formula, the military to the rescue once 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 sure doesn't. 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. The Biden administration knew about it in February. Whatever came afterwards, whatever the investigations determine, the buck stops in the Oval Office. I don't know 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 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.