Me seeing this for the 14th time in my 5 years on tumblr and seeing more notes and comments but still reblogging it since it’s literally a World Heritage Post
Last week President Biden sat down with manufacturers and retailers to map out a plan to get more formula onto store shelves immediately and directed the Food and Drug Administration to help get the plant reopened. This week he went two steps further: he invoked the Defense Production Act to force manufacturers to produce more formula and produce it ahead of other products and created a program to use federal planes to import baby formula from other countries.
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One bill would give FDA $28 million to add staff, work to help get more formula to consumers, and create a long-term strategy, including increased safety inspections so this cannot happen again. The second would dramatically increase supply from foreign sources to consumers using the federal Women, Infants and Children (WIC) Program.
192 House Republicans voted against giving FDA $28 million to help fix the crisis and ensure it does not happen again.
Nine House Republicans voted against making it easier for WIC customers to get access to baby formula.
Republicans on the baby formula shortage issue: all talk, no action. Many of these folks squawk about the “sanctity of life”, yet do nothing to advance the cause.
192 of them voted NO on $28M funding for the FDA and 9 voted NO on making it easier for WIC customers to get access to baby formula.
the fact that these f*cks will win elections is a crime committed by the democratic party
Last week President Biden sat down with manufacturers and retailers to map out a plan to get more formula onto store shelves immediately and directed the Food and Drug Administration to help get the plant reopened. This week he went two steps further: he invoked the Defense Production Act to force manufacturers to produce more formula and produce it ahead of other products and created a program to use federal planes to import baby formula from other countries.
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One bill would give FDA $28 million to add staff, work to help get more formula to consumers, and create a long-term strategy, including increased safety inspections so this cannot happen again. The second would dramatically increase supply from foreign sources to consumers using the federal Women, Infants and Children (WIC) Program.
192 House Republicans voted against giving FDA $28 million to help fix the crisis and ensure it does not happen again.
Nine House Republicans voted against making it easier for WIC customers to get access to baby formula.
Republicans on the baby formula shortage issue: all talk, no action. Many of these folks squawk about the “sanctity of life”, yet do nothing to advance the cause.
192 of them voted NO on $28M funding for the FDA and 9 voted NO on making it easier for WIC customers to get access to baby formula.
the fact that these f*cks will win elections is a crime committed by the democratic party
One should sit with it for a moment- the President of the United States, commanding the executive arm of the federal government, of what he touts as the greatest nation in the world, announces he must invoke emergency -defense- production laws in order to alleviate the critical shortage of baby formula. “To ensure that manufacturers have the necessary ingredients to make safe, healthy infant formula here at home,” he says, we must invoke a 1950 wartime readiness provision instituted for the Korean War.
The defense production act may sound familiar, because it was also recently invoked for the ongoing ~once in a generation~ global pandemic. There’s even some familiar names from there in this crisis as well. The baby formula shortage is in no small part due to the shutdown of a major US formula plant run by Abbott, the same massive firm which makes many of the COVID tests you depend on to know whether or not you might sicken your friends and family. It had to shut down due to bacterial contamination, which the FDA failed to investigate (let alone provide enough regulatory oversight to prevent) until after at least two infants were killed and who knows how many more got sick, despite a whistleblower who came to them well in advance. And who was fired.
The slow piecemeal crumbling is just a sight to behold. There’s only so much anyone can do to prop up a national market that has so been so consolidated, in the name of cutting costs and maximizing shareholder profits, that it has become riddled with institutional and infrastructural choke points, each of which are only a single industrial disaster or financial scheme away from collapsing. Which they do regularly! And allow people, or ‘consumers,’ or in this headline-making case, ‘parents of infant children,’ to absorb the damage of the risks that were taken. Because we can see no other way, apparently.
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