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McConnell: The FDA Already Has a $6 Billion Budget, Formula Shortage Isn’t ‘a Matter of Money’
Breitbart ^ | 05/19/2022 | Ian hatchett

Posted on 05/20/2022 5:01:55 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

On Thursday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Special Report,” Senate Minority Leader Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) argued that the FDA, which already has a $6 billion budget, didn’t fail to handle the formula shortage because they don’t have enough money, they failed due to “incompetence” within the bureaucracy.

McConnell stated [relevant remarks begin around 5:40] that the Biden administration’s response has been “Almost total incompetence. They misjudged this from the beginning. It’s not a matter of money. The FDA has a $6 billion budget. They could certainly take care of the so-called appropriation in the House that they just passed at 28 million. Bureaucratic incompetence, the administration was behind the curve. FDA needed to step up their game and hopefully, we’ll solve this problem very quickly.”

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: fda; formula; mcconnell; money
STFU already
1 posted on 05/20/2022 5:01:55 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
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To: ChicagoConservative27

The question should be: Why does the FDA have a 6 billion dollar budget?


2 posted on 05/20/2022 5:03:44 AM PDT by LastDayz (A blunt and brazen Texan. I will not be assimilated.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Clearly, we must nationalize all industries. The workers must own the means of production. We can print all the money we need, and the federal bureaucrats can run all the factories, and our production goals shall be met without difficulty. We just need a 5-year plan, comrade.


3 posted on 05/20/2022 5:05:43 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (It's hard to "Believe all women" when judges say "I don't know what a woman is".)
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To: LastDayz

https://www.ift.org/news-and-publications/food-technology-magazine/issues/2021/december/columns/startups-and-innovators-innovations-biomilq


4 posted on 05/20/2022 5:08:50 AM PDT by blackdog (Cooler King Joe, killing a winning nation every day. )
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To: LastDayz

Right there you will find all the answers.


5 posted on 05/20/2022 5:09:44 AM PDT by blackdog (Cooler King Joe, killing a winning nation every day. )
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To: ChicagoConservative27; All

But it’s for Ukrainian kids, what’s your opinion now?


6 posted on 05/20/2022 5:17:39 AM PDT by wiseprince (Me,)
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To: wiseprince

Ukraine take the $40 billion and run. Forget the 10% for the big guy. Just run way to luck out! Hello Cypress bank accounts.


7 posted on 05/20/2022 5:21:59 AM PDT by magua (It's not racism, it's just that thisBecause it’s being reported that a lot of this started in 2015. )
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To: LastDayz

Clearly, Congress is just as incompetent as the FDA, and the current administration.


8 posted on 05/20/2022 5:25:23 AM PDT by FamiliarFace (I wish “smart resume” would work for the real world so I could FF through the Burden admin BS.)
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To: magua

If it were for Ukrainian kids, McConnell would have already voted yes, and there would be no discuss on the topic, at least not this one. 🙂


9 posted on 05/20/2022 5:31:39 AM PDT by Robert DeLong
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To: LastDayz

They were trying to squeeze another $6 billion out of Abbott.


10 posted on 05/20/2022 5:39:54 AM PDT by virgil (The evil that men do lives after them )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

There are no penalties to any government program for not meeting their tasked duties. They just ask for more every budget cycle. There is no incentive to reduce just to increase.


11 posted on 05/20/2022 5:41:29 AM PDT by pas
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To: ChicagoConservative27

if only women had some way of feeding babies that didn’t cost anything!

*rolls eyes*


12 posted on 05/20/2022 6:27:49 AM PDT by TexasFreeper2009
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Does the FDA have a baby formula factory we don’t know about?-)


13 posted on 05/20/2022 9:01:47 AM PDT by Harpotoo (Being a socialist is a lot easier than having to WORK like the rest of US:-))
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To: blackdog

Gads..... it’s a who’s who of shiite birds. Synthetic breast milk. Who’d a thunk it. What’s wrong with the real deal?


14 posted on 05/20/2022 11:29:38 AM PDT by LastDayz (A blunt and brazen Texan. I will not be assimilated.)
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To: Harpotoo
I used to maintain two of the four machines that convert the milk powder base to emulsifiable instant milk. There are only two companies that do that in the US. It's all monitored, inspected, and controlled by the USDA. There is a complex commodity system in milk that is a national security and price stabilization thing since WWII. Essentially dairy milk is turned into dry powder and stored in government warehouses. A three year supply exists at all times. Excess inventories are exported. This is not the end product of instant milk or formula. It's the raw material milk powder base.

If Abbott shut down its plant, those government warehouses would be overflowing with milk base in a month with nowhere to put it or the government would be exporting the older inventories to other countries to keep prices stable and safe. The USDA is knock deep in this whole process of national dairy stockpiles. Nothing is a "surprise".

15 posted on 05/20/2022 12:07:39 PM PDT by blackdog (Cooler King Joe, killing a winning nation every day. )
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To: blackdog

Is that’s why it’s all at the border?


16 posted on 05/20/2022 12:29:16 PM PDT by Harpotoo (Being a socialist is a lot easier than having to WORK like the rest of US:-))
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To: Harpotoo

No. That is the finished goods.


17 posted on 05/20/2022 12:32:28 PM PDT by blackdog (Cooler King Joe, killing a winning nation every day. )
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To: LastDayz

The shiite birds were funding fake breast milk to end huge dairy herds which are a “climate change” problem. They want to produce commercial human breast milk via lab grown mammary cells (Stepford Wife Tits) and eliminate the dairy cows. This technology also allows them to introduce any gene therapy into the human population from the infant stage thru consumption of the gene modified milk products.


18 posted on 05/20/2022 12:39:06 PM PDT by blackdog (Cooler King Joe, killing a winning nation every day. )
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To: Harpotoo
BIOMILQ Labs. Look it up and read the facts. The time lines match up exactly. They even admit what they want to do. The same players that are pushing Covid jabs are pushing BIOMILQ.

Be very afraid.

19 posted on 05/20/2022 12:42:54 PM PDT by blackdog (Cooler King Joe, killing a winning nation every day. )
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