By Melanie Arter
(CNSNews.com) – White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre was grilled Wednesday about what President Biden knew and when about the infant formula shortage and why he didnât invoke the Defense Production Act and fly in baby formula from overseas sooner.
This comes after the president himself admitted earlier on Wednesday that he didnât realize that shutting down the Abbott facility would have âa very big impactâ on the nationâs formula supply.
âChanging gears to the event that was just held in the South Court and the meeting with formula executives. Â One after another executive said they knew immediately, within hours or days of the shutdown of that Abbott plant, the magnitude of the crisis facing the U.S. baby infant formula industry was going to face â that supply crunch that we all saw play out over the last several months,â Associated Press White House reporter Zeke Miller said…
