CNN’s Avlon on Baby Formula Shortage: The Issue Is Hypocrisy

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AVLON: "The issue is, as you said, hypocrisy. For the last several weeks, Republicans have been banging on the Biden Administration because of nationwide shortages in baby formula. This is one of the most personal examples of the dangers of supply chain shortages, and it’s affecting families personally. There’s pressure on lawmakers to act, but when the bills have come forward you see a divided Congress. Now we’re making slow progress, but two bills met very different fates the other night. One bill offering just $28 million in supplemental funding to the Food and Drug Administration to help alleviate the shortage, basically broke down on partisan lines. Republican leadership opposing passage of the bill that they’ve been railing against the core problem for days. The second bill had more broad support and only nine Republicans opposed it, but these nine are the classic Trumpists we’ve seen embroiled in all the hyperpartisan efforts to date, names like Biggs and Gosar and Gohmert and Marjorie Taylor Greene and Boebert. So you just see that even on an issue where there’s widespread outrage that people are still willing to play politics on, and that’s just a sign of the dysfunction in Washington that has folks so frustrated."