Kamala Harris visits Dulles Airport as
the latest shipment of baby formula -
enough for 200,000 bottles - arrives from
the UK: American parents continue desperate
hunt for food to feed their babies
Posted By: Ribicon, 6/18/2022 3:51:27 PM
Kamala Harris greeted a new shipment of baby formula brought from overseas this week to try and ease the crippling shortage. The vice president and second gentleman, Doug Emhoff, met with aviation workers helping with the formula delivery at Dulles Airport outside Washington, D.C. on Friday. Harris announced that by Father's Day, 13 million eight-ounce bottles will have been brought in by the administration through its 'Operation Fly Formula' airlift. 'This really is about what should be one of the highest purposes for any one of us,' Harris said in a short speech at the airport, 'which is to ensure we are meeting the needs of our children.'
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The US government caused this shortage by closing the Abbott factory for 4 months, for no reason and with no thought given to the consequences. And then they fly out a superannuated, monumentally stupid and arrogant sexworker to accept credit on behalf of the US government for addressing the shortage the most expensive and least environmentally way possible.