After Federal Trade Commission officials ordered major freight and delivery organizations to hand over supply chain and logistics information, it became abundantly clear the Biden Administration is still searching for solutions.
A unanimous Federal Trade Commission (FTC) vote resulted in Amazon and eight other large retailers being ordered by the Biden Administration to provide detailed supply chain information and the steps each corporation took to minimize disruption. Companies such as Amazon and Walmart, among others, have enjoyed relatively smooth sailing. By contrast, California saw logjams that left more than 100 cargo ships idling in limbo on the Pacific. On the East Coast, the Georgia Ports Authority scrambled to avert similar bottlenecks at the Port of Savannah. Although the White House has been supportive by sending $8 million to Georgia to back pop-up container yards and other private-sector solutions, the Biden Administration appears to be leading from behind.
“Supply chain disruptions are upending the provision and delivery of a wide array of goods, ranging from computer chips and medicines to meat and lumber. I am hopeful the FTC’s new 6(b) study will shed light on market conditions and business practices that may have worsened these disruptions or led to asymmetric effects,” FTC Chair Lina Khan reportedly stated.
Conducting studies while the country is in the midst of a supply chain disaster looks more like a Washington, D.C., boondoggle than a proactive solution. Working families are dealing with 30-year-high inflation while freight carriers and owner-operators are being forced to pass along the highest fuel prices since 2014, a period when Joe Biden served as vice president. The hard data, ailing small businesses, and price stress require prompt answers and solutions. Unfortunately, White House cabinet members such as U.S. Department of Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg appear to be playing fast and loose with supply chain logic.
“There are definitely going to continue to be issues, especially as long as the pandemic continues, right? If you have, for example, the third-largest container port in the world in China shutting down because of a Covid outbreak in late summer, you’ll feel that in the fall here on the West Coast,” Buttigieg reportedly said.
It stands to reason that if a massive Chinese container port shuts down, there would be fewer cargo ships anchored off the California coast, not more. Right? That level of verbal hijinks indicates the White House remains in the dark on the supply chain crisis in America.
The recent FTC order will reportedly require Amazon, Walmart, Food Lion, Best Buy, and other major retailers to provide the federal government with detailed instructions regarding their successful business practices for navigating the supply chain. Shouldn’t the White House, FTC, and DOT already know how it works?
Source: reuters.com
The Democrats who are running America has no intentions of fixing this because they created it to destroy the country in my opinion. America will have to claim bankruptcy before the end of HidenBiden’s term in the White House…. Since the Communist Chinese government owns trillions of dollars in the loans to America and will at some point demand payment to collapse this once greatest nation on the earth. Then,,,, Welcome to the New World Order they have been talking about for almost a century now.
LETS GO BRANDON!!!
This current administration is such an embarrassment and way in over its head. The more they “help”, the worse it gets. Ordering companies? Wow.
The White House, Politicians, FMCSA, DOT are as a whole to stupid and ignorant to fix the problem because their bs regulations are the cause of this. Until they realize they are problem it will just continue to get worse.