By Connor O’Brien
POLITICO
May 15, 2022
Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said Sunday his own family has felt the impact of a national shortage of infant formula.
In an interview on CBS’ “Face the Nation,” Buttigieg defended the Biden administration’s steps to address the formula shortage as parents struggle to locate formula across the country and the supply crunch increasingly consumes the attention of the White House and Congress.
“This is very personal for us. We’ve got two 9-month-old children. Baby formula’s a very big part of our lives,” Buttigieg said. “And like millions of Americans, we’ve been rooting around stores, getting in touch with relatives in places where they don’t have the same shortages to see what they can send over.”