Senator: Biden Should Use Defense Production Act to Boost Baby Formula Supply

Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) talks to reporters following the Senate Democrats weekly policy luncheon on Capitol Hill in Washington, on March 10, 2020. Samuel Corum/Getty Images

A New York senator said that President Joe Biden should consider using the Defense Production Act to boost baby formula supply amid a nationwide shortage as Republicans accused the White House of prioritizing sending formula to holding facilities for illegal immigrants at the border.

Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) told NPR that she will ask the president to consider using the provision to get more companies to manufacture baby formula, describing it as a “life or death issue.”