Jill Biden to meet second plane of baby formula at Dulles
by Morgan Chalfant - 05/24/22 3:07 PM ET
First lady Jill Biden and Surgeon General Vivek Murthy are slated to meet the second flight carrying infant formula from overseas when it arrives at Dulles International Airport just outside the nation’s capital on Wednesday, the White House announced.
The military plane is taking off from Ramstein Air Base in Germany and is expected to transport more than 100,000 pounds of infant formula, or roughly 1 million 8-ounce bottles of Nestlé formula, the White House said in an announcement Tuesday. FedEx Express, which is operating the flight, will then move the formula to a Nestlé distribution center in Pennsylvania.
This is the second such flight to arrive in the U.S. as part of “Operation Fly Formula,” a program President Biden launched last week to expedite shipments of baby formula from overseas to mitigate a national shortage.
The first flight landed in Indiana on Sunday and was greeted by Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack.
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