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families can't buy baby formula. >> bill: 40% of brands are out of stock nationwide. one republican lawmaker saying she is hearing from border agents who say their facilities have entire pallets of formula set aside for illegal immigrants crossing the border. >> these agents themselves have families and they have family members that can't get this baby formula in the stores. in texas and arizona, new mexico. the richest nation in the world and we're scrounging around for baby formula? >> the formula crisis is just one of many disasters facing biden's administration. americans scroung...

One. the new entrants can't get approval from the fda to make formula. >> gerber is not there for contingencies. we need a national stockpile of formula. it shouldn't be only the three bigies. the hyper regulation shuts everything down. first you can't water it down. you end up with a starving infant. you can't make it yourself. very dangerous. you can't tell women extend your breast feeding. women are -- 85% of women are breast feeding already but 70% of infants need some formula in the first six months of life. >> bill: target, cvs, walgreens limiting formula purchases as of now. >> which is...

>> dagen: no end in sight for the baby formula shortage. retailers say it will take months before parents should see shelves fully stocked again. abbott labs, one of the nation's top producers of baby formula, who had to shut down that plant in michigan, resorting to flying in formula from ireland as they wait on the fda's approval to restart production at that plant. dr. marc siegel on the fda's slow, slow, slow response. fox business east grady trimble is live outside the abbott labs plant in sturgis, michigan. grady. >> still no word from abbott or the fda on when this plant could reopen. t...