![]() ![]() Outside of NBC’s Kristen Welker and ABC’s Cecilia Vega regarding the border crisis, reporters were largely hospitable as opposed to hostile, which was all the rage (so to speak) during press conferences under the previous administration. That is unprecedented, yet the president and his press secretary continue to refuse to call this a crisis.) will take in more than 17,000 minors this month alone. Customs and Border Protection, authorities at the border came into contact with 9,457 children without a parent in February alone, marking a 61 percent increase from January. There is a significant increase in the number of people coming to the border in the winter months of January, February, March. As many people came - 28 percent increase in children to the border in my administration 31 percent in the last year in 2019, before the pandemic - in the Trump administration. * Biden claim: “Truth of the matter is, nothing has changed. There are no documented deaths by starvation.) * Biden claim: “The idea that I’m going to say, which I would never do, if an unaccompanied child ends up at the border, we’re just going to let them starve to death and stay on the other side, no previous administrations did either, except Trump.” (Fact: Yup, the 46th president accused the 45th president, with millions at home watching, of starving children to death at the border - which did not happen. (Fact: Just 13 percent of families are being sent back, according to a recent Axios report.) * Biden claim: “We’re sending back the vast majority of families who are coming” to the U.S. Overall, the press didn’t seem very interested in fact-checking the president on an array of whoppers, including: The reporter could have quoted Biden himself instead of quoting Schumer and Clyburn - but the goal was to shape a narrative and push the president even further to the left. No longer would the Senate be the ‘saucer’ to cool the passions of the immediate majority.” “No longer would the Senate be that ‘different kind of legislative body’ that the Founders intended. Alcindor also failed to quote Biden’s own words back to him from a speech he called, at the time, one of the most important of his career: “It is not only a bad idea, it upsets the constitutional design and it disservices the country,” Biden argued in 2005 against eliminating the Senate filibuster. ![]() That’s outright activism in pressing the president on national television to move forward with abolishing the filibuster to advance an agenda she supports. “Why not back a filibuster rule that at least gets around issues, including voting rights or immigration? Jim Clyburn, someone, of course, who you know very well, has backed the idea of a filibuster rule when it comes to civil rights and voting rights.” Chuck Schumer’s calling it in an existential threat to democracy,” Alcindor, who plays an objective journalist on TV, said to the president after being the second reporter chosen by Biden’s handlers for him to call upon. “When it comes to the filibuster, immigration is a big issue, of course, related to the filibuster, but there’s also Republicans who are passing bill after bill trying to restrict voting rights. Take, for example, this activism disguised as a question from PBS’s Yamiche Alcindor on why the president needs to abolish the filibuster in the name of racial equality while combating evil Republicans in their efforts to prevent minorities from voting. The questions for the president were meek and vague, failing to extract any specific information about policies or solutions to the myriad problems faced by the administration. ![]() But the hour-plus event was a disgrace for some in the press and a dubious performance by the president. “This announcement is designed to distract from this Administration’s failed energy policies.President Biden called on 10 reporters to answer 30-some questions during his long-awaited first formal press conference on Thursday. “The history of a windfall profits tax is clear: reduced domestic production and increased dependence on foreign suppliers,” said Anne Bradbury, CEO of the American Exploration & Production Council. Industry representatives are arguing against windfall profit taxes and accusing Biden of playing politics on the issue to buoy Democrats in the midterms. reported over $30 billion in combined earnings Friday, prompting the latest clash with the White House ( Energywire, Oct. oil and gas companies - Exxon Mobil Corp. AP was the first to report Monday that Biden’s speech would raise the possibility of imposing a “windfall tax” on energy companies.īiden’s speech was previewed on the White House website as the president’s response “to reports over recent days of major oil companies making record-setting profits even as they refuse to help lower prices at the pump for the American people.” ![]()
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