<p>White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki claimed that the baby formula shortage was in part the result of people &#8220;hoarding&#8221; the available supply and then selling it for a higher price, profiting from the desperation of the families who needed to feed their babies.</p>
<p>Psaki took a number of questions on the issue during Thursday&#8217;s press briefing, and she began by saying that President Joe Biden had been anticipating the <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/outright-criminal-congress-dragged-for-rushing-40-billion-to-ukraine-waiting-2-weeks-to-schedule-hearing-on-formula-shortage/">shortages</a> and working to find solutions for quite some time.</p>
<p>CBS reporter Ed O&#8217;Keefe pressed Psaki on that point, asking when President Biden had first been briefed on the potential for shortages, but Psaki declined to give any details. &#8220;I&#8217;m not going to get into internal briefings,&#8221; was all she would say.</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">CBS&#39;s <a href="https://twitter.com/edokeefe?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@EdOKeefe</a>: &quot;On the formula shortage&#8230;you said that this is been something that&#39;s been in the works for several months, mostly through the FDA. When was the first time the President was briefed on the shortage? </p>
<p>Psaki: &quot;I&#39;m not going to get into internal briefings.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/RUlH0PWUoU">pic.twitter.com/RUlH0PWUoU</a></p>
<p>&mdash; Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) <a href="https://twitter.com/CurtisHouck/status/1524842191398522900?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 12, 2022</a></p></blockquote>
<p>O&#8217;Keefe pressed again, asking whether anyone had considered invoking the Defense Production Act and once more whether Biden had been apprised of the situation prior to this week. &#8220;It wasn&#8217;t like this suddenly popped up?&#8221;</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">CBS&#39;s <a href="https://twitter.com/edokeefe?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@EdOKeefe</a>: &quot;He would have known about this before this week? It wasn&#39;t like this suddenly popped up?&quot;</p>
<p>Psaki: &quot;This is something the administration has been working on for some time now.&quot; (3/3) <a href="https://t.co/tH0GbjaE8J">pic.twitter.com/tH0GbjaE8J</a></p>
<p>&mdash; Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) <a href="https://twitter.com/CurtisHouck/status/1524843179194863637?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 12, 2022</a></p></blockquote>
<p>Fox News White House Correspondent Jacqui Heinrich continued in the same vein, noting that a <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/amid-baby-formula-shortages-republicans-introduce-legislation-strengthening-domestic-infant-formula-supply/">whistle-blower</a> had come forward last October to warn the FDA.</p>
<p>&#8220;It does seem like we should&#8217;ve seen this coming, that maybe the FDA could have done more on the baby formula shortage,&#8221; she said. &#8220;The whistleblower used to work at that Sturgis plant warned the FDA top officials about safety concerns in October but they didn&#8217;t interview that whistleblower until December, the inspection wasn&#8217;t until January 31st and the recall happened February 17th. So, is that timeline acceptable to the White House? And it not, what is the White House doing to correct that?&#8221;</p>
<p>Psaki replied that she did not have any &#8220;specific analysis&#8221; of the process, repeating that the Biden administration had been working on the issue for months.</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">JACQUI TIME: &quot;It does seem like we should&#39;ve seen this coming, that maybe the FDA could have done more on the baby formula shortage. The whistleblower used to work at that&#8230;plant warned the FDA&#8230;in October&#8230;The recall happened February 17th. So, is that timeline acceptable[?]&quot; <a href="https://t.co/uCJ0RKitJb">pic.twitter.com/uCJ0RKitJb</a></p>
<p>&mdash; Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) <a href="https://twitter.com/CurtisHouck/status/1524844469048201220?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 12, 2022</a></p></blockquote>
<p>Psaki later noted another issue that was complicating efforts to get <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/ohio-democrat-is-mad-at-republicans-for-fighting-abortion-when-theres-a-formula-shortage/">formula</a> back on shelves, arguing that some people were &#8220;hoarding&#8221; what little supply there was and then jacking up the price, forcing desperate parents to pay more for the formula they needed.</p>
<p>&#8220;If you are a parent who&#8217;s looking for formula right now, struggling to find what you need, do you have even a rough guess of how long these shortages are going to last? What should parents be bracing for here?&#8221; one reporter asked.</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">PSAKI: &quot;What we are seeing which is an enormous problem is hoarding&#8230;and people hoarding because they are trying to profit off of fearful parents.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/EE50jO0NTg">pic.twitter.com/EE50jO0NTg</a></p>
<p>&mdash; Townhall.com (@townhallcom) <a href="https://twitter.com/townhallcom/status/1524840408353841152?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 12, 2022</a></p></blockquote>
<p>Psaki argued that supply was already beginning to increase, adding, &#8220;What we are seeing which is an enormous problem is hoarding — people hoarding because they are fearful, that is one element of it — and people hoarding because they are trying to profit off of fearful parents.&#8221;</p>

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