Parents Panic as Biden Retreats

A nationwide shortage of children’s pain medication is the newest consequence of the Biden administration’s inept supply chain response – more than 19 months after Biden pledged a fix.

After a year in which American families have been hurt by shortages of everything from baby formula to feminine products, Biden’s latest failure is again leaving parents in a panic.

The Biden administration has spent months insisting this wasn’t an issue:

• November 27: Top Biden advisor Ashish Jha said the “good news” around the nationwide shortage of amoxicillin and ibuprofen is “plenty of vaccines for flu and COVID.”
• December 5: Karine Jean-Pierre could not say what actions – if any – the Biden administration was taking to combat drug shortages.
• December 7: Jean-Pierre again downplayed the shortages, sidestepping questions on if Biden had even been briefed on the issue.
• December 14: A Biden spokesman insisted the shortages were a priority – by pointing to an executive order from February 2021.
• December 18: Jha again brushed off the shortages, instead blaming “unprecedented” demand.

Critical medication shortages have persisted under Biden; by the end of last year, it was being called an “urgent public health crisis.”

Now, coupled with the pressures families are facing from exorbitant prices and other critical shortages, it’s a five-alarm fire.

And where are Biden and his top lieutenants? On vacation.