On hold for 72 minutes and apologetic customer service representatives: Testing out resources from the Biden administration's new website for parents looking for baby formula
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The Biden administration is confronting a barrage of questions and criticism for the national baby formula shortage that has anxious and angry parents hopping from store to store in search of baby food.
The White House was unable to point to federal guidance last Thursday on what parents struggling to find formula should do, and recommended that families reach out to their doctors and pediatricians if they were worried about their babies' health. Then on Friday, it unveiled a new website: HHS.gov/formula.
"We recognize that parents have a lot of questions," then-White House press secretary Jen Psaki told reporters. The new website, she said, is aimed at providing "resources and places that parents can go to obtain formula, including contacts with companies, food banks (and) health care providers."
Hours after President Joe Biden touted its success during his commencement speech at West Point last Saturday, White House staffers learned that the temporary pier the military had just constructed into Gaza was falling apart. Four Army vessels had been beached, two in Gaza and two along the coast of Israel.
President Joe Biden asserted Friday that Hamas has been degraded to a point where it can no longer carry out the type of attack that launched the current 8-month conflict in Gaza, laying out a three-phase proposal Israel has submitted to wind down the grinding crisis as he declared, “It’s time for this war to end.