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The baby formula crisis continues to have parents scrambling to find food.

As the law is now, it is not possible to do that. congressman, chair of the appropriations committee, as you know, she's been on this case for a while. she was the chair of the ag subcommittee on appropriations before, that's ag and also nutrition and everything that goes with that. we've been talking about that. she feels quite certain that we have to change the law in order for the defense production act to be called into play. and we certainly should. in the meantime, this week we have two bills coming up, bobby scott, chair of education and labor committee, has a bill to loosen some of the...

50% of the formula is purchased under the w.i.c. program. so facilitate that. then we have another bill that rosa -- madame chair is putting together that will allocate sources for us to be able to purchase more. there are four countries, mexico, chile, ireland and the netherlands that have supply that we may be able to acquire immediately. now, the president has rightfully said, we have to be as fast as possible but as cautious as possible so we have safety. in addition to all of this, we have to subject these companies to scrutiny about the safety of this and how we got to a place

Other countries, where they have safety protocols in place, that would also help increase the amount of formula. but then it is also important to get rid of the red tape that keeps that formula from being sold on shelves. and that's what the retailers told us yesterday. the wic program is incredibly important. normally it has very strict protocols what types of formula are sold and in which context. right now we need to relax all of those in every state to make it easier for those retailers that when that formula comes into stockpiles, they can put it on to shelves. so that's the key step we n...

Let me bring in white house communications director, kate beckenfield. you talk to the moms and you hear them saying they feel like a failure and they are terrified and are hearing these interviews. >> her story is incredible powerful, and she's right about what she was saying about the need to be urgent and to be quick and safe, and what she was saying about the wic program is exactly right. it's exactly what president biden announced yesterday, that we are working while we have -- while we issued guidance we are working with states to lift the restrictions on wic, and so they can buy whichev...