as though there is a hierarchy for people who need to feed babies. calling out this gop hypocrist, calling out the quote, callous disregard for the lives of babies seems at odds with republican claims to be a party that is particularly and even obsessly focused on the welfare of fetuses. for republicans, fetuses must be protected until they are born. at which point viable in pence should be denied food by the government. joining me now is to discuss is california congressman eric swalwell. congressman, good to see you. congress taking action to solve this shortage. when can families see relief? they need it immediately. and we re working to attack this first on, making sure that the most vulnerable people who are on wic, also known as food stamps, have more access to it. also to fund $28 million more in addressing the supply challenges. also to hold hearings to understand why there were
the most vulnerable people who are on wick, also known as food, staff have more access to it. also to fund $28 million more in addressing the supply challenges. also to hold hearings to understand why there were issues with these companies. we re feeling it in our household, alicia. we ve got a six month old who just switched a formula. so i understand what this means to people. it also illustrates that republicans are not interested in solutions. they re interested in theater. they call this joe biden s baby formula crisis, as it as in he s got a baby from the factory outside the white house. you can politicize it that way. but we put forward solutions to try and address it, and most republicans voted against funding those solutions. so again, we re here to get things done, and attack the problems. they re there, it seems, just to own the lives and produce more and more theater. congressman, i m sure you
share with the public to make sure that happens. through a combination of that method and trying to get domestic supply to places where there is scarcity. an issue that the president has been working directly on and talking directly to retailers on. we re hoping that those two things to get the plant up and running and get more manufacturing capacity will result in more formula on shelves and this may take a few weeks for us to get past the supply challenges now and that is why we also set up the website with resources to help people find supply now, reach out to their doctor for help and reach out to the american county of pediatrics which has set up a website for resources for parenting needs. has there been any conversation inside the administration, doctor, about reimbursing some of the families that took a huge financial hit in order to deal with the financial shortage? we are looking at everything we can to make lives easier for parents. so reimbursements are on the
versus making sure that we had a safe product for families to have for their babies? look, i called for and there is going to be an inspection, a general inspector is going to engage both with the fda and with abbott. we need to get to the bottom of this. in the meantime, we have to serious look at the supply challenges and what we need to do so that parents can get access to baby formula. and we re working on, that looking at legislation. we re looking at ways in which we can move. the president i probably will get abbott to come to the hill to testify. i will do that as well so that we are at the beginning of this process to find out what has happened here, why it happened, because we cannot we