US president Joe Biden has invoked Korean war-era powers to boost production of baby formula, in an effort to ease shortages that are becoming a political liability for the White House and congressional Democrats.
Biden’s move comes after growing criticism from Republicans in Congress, who have seized on the limited availability of baby formula as the latest example of an economy struggling to cope with high inflation and supply chain shortages.
Biden on Wednesday night announced two steps to increase baby formula supply: “Invoking the Defense Production Act to increase domestic production [and] launching Operation Fly Formula to use federal planes to fly formula in from abroad.”
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