| Policy analysts say U.S. trade restrictions, including ones engineered under the Trump administration, along with lean manufacturing practices help explain why stores can't easily replenish stocks of baby formula. The taxes and extra regulatory hoops make it expensive and difficult to import the specialized baby food [Link]. |
| The House on Wednesday passed a $28 million emergency spending bill to address the nationwide shortage of baby formula. Rep Rosa DeLauro, the Democratic chair of the House Appropriations Committee who authored the bill, said the money would pay for additional U.S. Food and Drug Administration staffing to boost inspection of formula at domestic and foreign suppliers, prevent fraudulent products getting onto store shelves and improve data collection on the infant formula marketplace.
The bill, known as the Infant Formula Supplemental Appropriations Act, passed 231 to 192 in a vote mostly along party lines. All House Democrats supported the legislation, along with 12 Republicans who bucked their party leadership to support it. Here is a list of all Republicans who voted against the Infant Formula Supplemental Appropriations Act. |
So, republiturds voted against solving the problem donald tRump created, yet dishonest magaturds will still try and blame our fantastic President, Joe Biden.
For example, the following video was linked to by the blogger Minus FJ on Lisa's blog...
According to the idiots behind "United Spot", the Biden administration plan to deal with the baby formula shortage is to abort more babies. "It's all part of the plan" the (bad) deep-fake Nancy Peolsi says. It isn't. Preserving a woman's right to choose won't lead to more abortions. Democrats are pro-choice, not pro-abortion.
Not that the baby formula shortage and abortion have anything to do with each other. They DO NOT. Other things that have nothing to do with the formula shortage? Not allowing immigrant mothers with infant babies apprehended at the border to starve or The war in Ukraine.
President Joe Biden has (NPR reports) "invoked the Defense Production Act to speed production of infant formula and authorized flights to import supply from overseas". Additionally, the "FDA said it was streamlining its review process to make it easier for foreign manufacturers to begin shipping more formula into the US".
President Biden, his administration and Congressional Democrats are on this. While republiturds lie and vote against legislation addressing the problem. ALL for political advantage. Because republiturds are terrible.
Quora Question: Why do many Liberals dislike Majorie Taylor Greene?.
ReplyDeleteAnswer: According to Vanity Fair: In the midst of a full-blown crisis for parents who need formula to feed their children, more than 90% of House Republicans decided on Wednesday that the shortage that has led to panic and despair is not actually that big a deal, with 192 (out of 208) GOP lawmakers voting against an emergency spending bill meant to address the terrifying situation. Sorry, babies! MTG was one of the nays.
Then the House voted on a bill to allow persons who qualify for WIC to have more access to baby formula. MJT and 8 other hard cases voted no to that as well. She said it would make it more difficult for people who do not qualify for WIC to find formula.
It’s as though she doesn’t really want the government to help resolve the problem even after she spent days complaining that the government did nothing to resolve the problem.
Perhaps that is why nearly everyone dislikes her.