The White House refuses to call the baby formula shortage a crisis, I know quite a few

parents who disagree.

The lead starts right now.

Baby formula under lock and key in some spots and possible to find in others how the

Biden administration is now responding after shortages that have been here for months

plus Russia retaliating the Kremlin threatening to cut its power supply to Finland after

Finland a neighboring nation looks to join NATO what might come next and a chaotic

scene at a funeral as Israeli police beat mourners with batons attacking a procession

for a slain Palestinian American journalist.

Hello and welcome to the lead on Jake Tapper if you are a parent of an infant and you

rely on formula for your baby's nutrition and survival well empty store shelves have

become a frustratingly familiar site this is in Minnesota today but it is happening all

over the country slim pickings at a Walmart outside Dallas also today few choices at a

pharmacy in Atlanta just a few hours ago and this afternoon in Alexandria Virginia literally

across the river from where lawmakers are currently ringing their hands and making

speeches about the shortage nothing what's left in stock that's actually formulated for

toddlers not for infants parents from coast to coast panic texting their relatives asking

them to check stores and their neighborhoods what's that no luck they go to the local

parent Facebook group pleading for help along with every other parent in the Facebook

group it may only be grabbing national headlines now but parents of infants have had trouble

finding food for their babies for months and many are at their wits end a February recall

and subsequent shutdown of a factory making some of the most in demand formulas exacerbated

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