Who is in charge of Biden's baby formula response?

[Leroy N. Soetoro]

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Whoever is in charge of the Biden administration’s response to the baby
formula crisis, it is definitely not Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo.

Asked by CNN’s Jake Tapper Sunday when she first learned about the formula
shortage, Raimondo said, “Uh, I first learned about it, you know, a couple
of months ago.” Which led Tapper to cut in, “So April?”

“Probably April,” Raimondo responded. “I’m not involved in the
administration’s response here, I should say, but I think they’re doing a
very good job.”

Raimondo might be the only person in America that thinks the Biden
administration is doing a good job on the formula shortage, but her
response also raises the question, “If the Commerce secretary isn’t in
charge of getting more baby formula on the shelves, who is?”

It is a complicated issue involving a number of departments. The Food and
Drug Administration, which has issued regulations making the importation
of most European baby formulas illegal, is part of the Department of
Health and Human Services (HHS). But much of the formula crisis also stems
from the fact that each state has its own baby formula monopoly thanks to
the federal government’s Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) program, which
is actually run not by HHS, but by the Department of Agriculture.

So is the head of the FDA in charge? The head of HHS? Department of
Agriculture? Nobody knows.

Not that the White House press corps hasn’t been asking.

This Thursday CNN’s Ed Henry pressed White House press secretary Karine
Jean-Pierre on the issue.

“Part of the reason there’s so much curiosity about this across town is
because, as you know, there have been stories written over the last
several days and weeks about how things are going here in the West Wing,
how things are operating,” Henry began.

“And so, when we ask, ‘Who was told, either by the FDA or the Department
of Health and Human Services or the USDA, here in the West Wing — who was
told first? How did that get from that person, eventually, to the
President?’ It’s completely understandable. There are thousands of things
going on across the federal government today,” he continued.

“But here’s the issue: Something else could crop up suddenly as an
unforeseen crisis, like this one. And so we’re trying to get a sense of
how do things operate here inside the West Wing and how they eventually
rise to the level of presidential involvement that then lead to things
like invoking the Defense Production Act five — four or five months after
the initial flags were raised.”

Jean-Pierre’s response did not inspire confidence. “So, Ed, the President
was briefed through his regular channels, as he is briefed on countless
priorities that the President of the United States has to deal with. There
are countless issues, countless priorities that I talk about here all the
time, every day, about different priorities that we have to deal with,
whether it’s the economy, whether it’s COVID, whether it’s climate change,
whether it’s foreign policy issues that we have to deal with and assess.
That is how we run the White House; it’s how any White House is run.”

“You’re asking me for a specific name,” Jean-Pierre continued. “I’m
telling you how the process works, and I’m telling you how it goes from
White House staff to regular channels to the President.”

So no answer from the White House on who exactly decided to brief
President Biden on the formula crisis or when. Instead, we are told to
trust the process.

Considering Biden’s record on the border crisis, gas prices, inflation,
Afghanistan, and now baby formula, it is understandable that the people
have stopped trusting Biden’s process.


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