of bills, one of which provides an extra $28 million in funding for the fda that s mainly for staffing issues, oversight into preventing future formula shortages. elizabeth cohen joins us with much more on what is now more or less military operation to get more baby formula to the united states. it really is, john, that s a good way to describe it. who would have thought that it would come to this in the united states. let s take a look at some more details for what you and erica just described. so the defense production act, the government directs formula ingredients, inn gred yents that go into formula, to go to formula manufacturers first. in other words, not to other things first. also the fda making it easier to import formula to the u.s., something that has really not been done very much at all. also, operation fly formula, the department of defense helps expedite formula imports by using commercial planes that have contracts with the dod. also, the fda and abbott a
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increase it was restaurants, spending less on groceries, people are going out to eat more. those are all good things but the issue is and i feel like you and i talk about this all the time it s the perception, right? unemployment numbers are great, consumer spending was still going strong in april and yet gas prices are up, we look at the dow which is not the economy but people freak out looking at their 401(k) and that so 5300 points for the dow this year is a swift decline. you are back to where you were last year. we had two years of really good covid gains, now for perspective you are back to where you were last year. i think people should get used to these kind of gas prices at least in the near term. this russian invasion of ukraine, we are in a much needed reordering, redrawing of the global energy map. that could take months and years. so there is a lot of uncertainty in the oil patch. i think on the job front the unemployment rate being 3.6% is important to note, but you r
are emigrating apart from the auto industry not many jobs of state and speak out we re glad the jobs we have here are secure. but the situation is very different to supply as this plant south of charleston produces and a 1000000 gearboxes for a range of common but until now only for combustion engines. which is a sort of these days we re a little concerned about how things are progressing in the car industry the fear is that what we re producing here will no longer be needed and it s always us it looks like the combustion engine is on its way out and they re trying to push electric engines through by hook or by crook. they re not thinking about the losses with. at the morning meeting there s a sense of looming crisis the diesel emission scandal has led to a swift decline in orders and in the long term customers are likely to switch to