In online nomenclature, if a video or photo “breaks the internet,” then it means that the viral object is wildly popular and ubiquitous across the web. Unfortunately, that isn’t what we mean when we say the Biden administration’s website for parents seeking baby formula “broke the internet.” That new site is such a disaster that even CNN is blasting the darned thing for failing to work as advertised.
On Friday, then White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki announced that the Department of Health and Human Services created a new tool for parents that would serve as an easy access guide for how to locate baby formula products as the nation suffers a shortage of the substance necessary to feed so many babies.
“We recognize that parents have a lot of questions,” Psaki said to reporters on Friday. CNN noted that the website was supposed to be a one-stop-shop for “resources and places that parents can go to obtain the formula, including contacts with companies, food banks…