Biden Actions ... And Reactions
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Biden says White House has secured $8 BILLION in public and private sector funding to help end hunger in the U.S. by 2030
- President Joe Biden's administration secured $8 billion in commitments from public and private entities to end hunger in the U.S. by 2030
- The commitments were announced Wednesday ahead of the White House Conference on Hunger, Nutrition, and Health
- Participants included Hy-Vee, Meijerk Publix, Google, Warner Bros. Discovery, Doordash and Chobani
- 'That's why we're here today, to harness our greatest resource: Our fellow Americans,' Biden said. 'Everyone, everyone has an important role to play'
- At the same event, Biden asked 'where's Jackie?' an apparent reference to the late Republican Rep. Jackie Walorski, who died in a car accident in August
You don't end hunger by giving people something, you just make them dependent
Karine Jean-Pierre called out for 'embarrassing' answers after Biden's gaffe about late congresswoman
Biden looks in crowd for GOP Rep. Jackie Walorski, who died in car crash last month
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Biden looks in crowd for GOP Rep. Jackie Walorski, who died in car crash last month
Karine Jean-Pierre called out for 'embarrassing' answers after Biden's gaffe about late congresswoman
Matt Gorman slams the White House for defending President Biden's embarrassing and offensive gaffe where he was looking for the late congresswoman Jackie Walorski.
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Joe Biden Trashes Italy's Giorgia Meloni in Massive Self-Awareness Fail
If you guess that he ranted about threats to “democracy,” which is basically the one-note Democrats continue to desperately play over and over this election cycle, pick up your winnings at the window. But it was who Biden cited as an example that raised eyebrows. Apparently, he attacked Giorgia Meloni’s rise, insinuating that what “happened in Italy” illustrated the destruction of “democracy” around the globe.
For those keeping score at home, we are now at the point where Democrats will quite literally claim that a democratic election, voted on by the people, is actually a threat to democracy if the “wrong” people win. In this case, Meloni’s right-wing coalition won an overwhelming victory after Italy’s left ran the country into the ground.
The lack of self-awareness here is so thick you can cut it with a knife. It is self-evident that you can’t claim that “democracy” is in danger if you yourself don’t respect the results of democratic elections. Is Biden suggesting that Italy’s election was rigged? Or is he really saying that any outcome that goes against the globalist left is illegitimate on its face?
Whatever the reason, what Biden is promoting is not “democracy.” It’s authoritarianism wrapped in meaningless fluff disguised as respect for freedom. Real democracy can’t exist if voters aren’t able to choose the representatives without condemnation and hyperbolic proclamations from their supposed betters, of which Biden is decidedly not. The World Economic Forum and the like doesn’t get to decide who governs the people. The people do.
Here comes Joe Biden to the rescue.
“I want to add one more warning … to the oil and gas industry executives. Do not — let me repeat, do not — use this as an excuse to raise gasoline prices or gouge the American people,” Biden said in a speech as the eyewall of the storm moved onshore in Florida on Wednesday morning.
Okay, jawboning is part of a president’s job. But what he said next was positively mystifying.
“My experts informed me the production of only about 190,000 barrels a day have been impacted by the storm thus far,” Biden said. “That’s less than 2% of the United States’ daily production impacted for a very short period of time.”
Biden calls this a “small temporary storm impact on oil production.” This is true. But the impact on supply is massive. It does very little good for oil to be sitting in tank farms or tanker trucks if they can’t reach their customers to deliver the fuel.
Phil Flynn, a Fox Business contributor and senior market analyst at The Price Futures Group, told FOX News Digital that Biden’s move is “mind-boggling” but not unexpected.
“I want to add one more warning … to the oil and gas industry executives. Do not — let me repeat, do not — use this as an excuse to raise gasoline prices or gouge the American people,” Biden said in a speech as the eyewall of the storm moved onshore in Florida on Wednesday morning.
Okay, jawboning is part of a president’s job. But what he said next was positively mystifying.
“My experts informed me the production of only about 190,000 barrels a day have been impacted by the storm thus far,” Biden said. “That’s less than 2% of the United States’ daily production impacted for a very short period of time.”
Biden calls this a “small temporary storm impact on oil production.” This is true. But the impact on supply is massive. It does very little good for oil to be sitting in tank farms or tanker trucks if they can’t reach their customers to deliver the fuel.
Phil Flynn, a Fox Business contributor and senior market analyst at The Price Futures Group, told FOX News Digital that Biden’s move is “mind-boggling” but not unexpected.
Biden Has DRAINED Strategic Petroleum Reserve Right When Florida Needs It
Speaking to Fox Business Network’s Kennedy, one Republican Congressman is calling out Joe Biden and his reckless use of the Strategic Reserves to lower gas prices after his climate policies gouged them in the first place. He stated we find ourselves when the exact need for the reserve supplies is limited because many resources have already been drained.
Breitbart covered the exchange:
Host Jackie DeAngelis asked, [relevant remarks begin around 1:35] “Obviously, supplies are going to be needed in Florida. This is the kind of thing that we keep the SPR for, emergencies within the country that are as a result of a natural disaster. If the situation worsens in Georgia, in the Carolinas, and all of a sudden, we find ourselves needing more supplies than anticipated when the administration and the President [have] allocated those supplies, essentially, to just bring the price of gas down as a result of high inflation, your thoughts on where we stand, as a country, going into this.”
Carter responded, “Well, that’s a great point. And that’s what the reserves are for, for emergency situations, not to bring down the price of gas so that you can bring down inflation, which is what the Biden administration has used it for. Now, we find ourselves in a situation where perhaps we are going to need it.”
Judge sends PLF, plaintiff back to the drawing board after last-minute changes in Academia bailout; Update: Progressives blindsided?
A late ruling yesterday in federal court delivered a setback for Pacific Legal Foundation in its lawsuit against Biden’s Academia bailout. However, the circumstances that prompted it may have delivered even more fodder for six states suing the Biden administration.
Let’s start with the first domino to fall. The Biden administration suddenly reversed course on providing comprehensive and compulsory student-loan debt forgiveness yesterday after seeing the PLF complaint. The Department of Education changed the rules to undercut Frank Garrison’s standing in the first lawsuit, and to head off part of the complaint filed later in the week by the six states:
Update: These changes were so whimsical and arbitrary, Politico reports, that they blindsided progressives who demanded comprehensive debt forgiveness:
They’re now circling the wagons, but that just shows how legally fraught their demands were.
Ted Cruz Masterfully Mocks Biden's Warning About Non-Existent Gas Price 'Gouging' in Wake of Hurricane
Biden being Biden, he once again wasted no time rushing to warn against gas price “gouging” in the aftermath of devastating Hurricane Ian. As far as I can tell, Biden had no evidence to support his silly warning. Then again, the old buck-passer never has had evidence, most recently blaming “price gouging” as one of his many excuses for out-of-control gas prices. Other Biden “gas price hike bogeymen” were Russian dictator Vladimir Putin and, hysterically, the Republican Party.
And Cruz being Cruz, he handily blistered Biden and Democrats for blaming inflation, in particular, gas-price gouging, on everyone and everything but the disastrous Biden presidency. During Friday’s broadcast of Fox News Radio’s “Guy Benson Show,” Cruz took it to the rim against the lies and hypocrisy — in classic style. His relevant comments begin around the 6:10 mark.
Biden phones hero Coast Guard diver to congratulate him for rescuing lives of Florida residents - just days before he will FIRE him for being unvaccinated as 20,000 members of military face axe
- An heroic Coast Guard swimmer who saved the life of a disabled woman during Hurricane Ian was publicly thanked by President Joe Biden on Saturday
- Despite the gratitude, Aviation Survival Technician Second Class Zach Loesch is due to be discharged within two months over his refusal to be vaccinated
- He is one of the 2,632 members of the Coast Guard who have refused vaccination
- In total, there are around 15,000 active servicemen and women who are facing discharge over their vaccine stance
- Loesch, who has applied for a religious exemption, said that he didn't bring up the vaccine mandate when speaking to Biden
- Most servicemembers who refuse the vaccine will be generally discharged meaning they can collect benefits and reenlist if they get the vaccine
Biden tapping tax dollars to boost Dem registration, turnout, warn House GOP, voting watchdog
"Biden is revving up his reelection campaign with federal agencies," warns Phill Kline, the director of election watchdog organization The Amistad Project.
The effort is funded with "Biden Bucks," said Kine, alluding to "Zuckerbucks," the approximately $400 million from Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg widely alleged to have been funneled through left-leaning nonprofits to turn out the Democratic vote in the 2020 presidential election.
The Center for Tech and Civic Life, which received the bulk of the $400 million in donations from Zuckerberg, has previously said that the funds were spent in an effort to make voting safer amid the pandemic, without any political preference.
While Biden Bucks are funding efforts similar to those funded privately in 2020 in the name of pandemic safety, the president is using taxpayer money under the pretext of democratic participation, according to Kline.
If the intent behind the executive order is to target a voter profile that benefits one political party at the expense of another, then it violates a range of laws, Kline explained. The administration, however, is "trying to disguise" its intent, he said. "The challenge," he acknowledged, "is proving intent."
Biden Washes His Hands of Gas Prices Now That They're Going Back Up
Of course, after months of taking credit for gas prices going down, Biden sure isn’t planning to take the blame for them going back up. Last week, he preemptively blamed Big Oil for gas prices going forward by claiming, without any evidence, that gas company executives might engage in price gouging because of Hurricane Ian.
“I want to add one more warning … to the oil and gas industry executives. Do not — let me repeat, do not — use this as an excuse to raise gasoline prices or gouge the American people,” Biden said.
Phil Flynn, a FOX Business contributor and senior market analyst at The Price Futures Group, told FOX News Digital that Biden is playing politics with gas prices.
“The president’s playing politics, and there is no doubt that when a storm comes in it can impact gasoline prices — but not necessarily because the oil companies are playing with the prices,” he said, pointing out that the demand for gas skyrockets just before a major storm because people plan to leave their homes.
“Once again, here’s the Biden administration falsely accusing the U.S. energy companies of profiteering, which is in their playbook,” Flynn added. “It shows that they have either a total misunderstanding or a total disrespect for the industry.”
‘Unfair, Unconstitutional, And Unwise’
“In addition to being economically unwise and downright unfair, the Biden Administration’s Mass Debt Cancellation is yet another example in a long line of unlawful regulatory actions,” the complaint said. “No statute permits President Biden to unilaterally relieve millions of individuals from their obligation to pay loans they voluntarily assumed.”
The complaint highlighted opposition to the student debt relief from House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), who argued last year that any action on loan cancellation must come from “an act of Congress.” In the wake of Biden’s announcement of the cancellation policy, however, Pelosi appeared to pivot before declaring that the commander-in-chief’s “bold action is a strong step in Democrats’ fight to expand access to higher education.”
The attorneys general likewise pointed to the Supreme Court’s recent opinion in West Virginia v. EPA, which explained that federal agencies cannot assert “highly consequential power beyond what Congress could reasonably be understood to have granted.” A separate lawsuit from Attorney General Mark Brnovich (R-AZ) invoked the same ruling and argued that the “mass debt forgiveness program is fundamentally unfair, unconstitutional, and unwise.”
“The fact that the Biden Administration has chosen to usurp the role of Congress and the power of the purse is particularly harmful because nearly every prior bailout of an industry by Congress has also extracted sorely needed reforms from the affected industry,” the lawsuit said. “Here, the presence of half a trillion dollars of student debt cancellation is a clear admission that the higher education industry needs structural reforms, but contains no reforms whatsoever such as requiring colleges to reduce costs, or be more transparent about the low job prospects of certain courses of study.”
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Just sneakin' around....
Besides just printing paper money to cover their massive spending, there was always a thought in my head that there was something unsaid. This is it.
Biden Regime Paid $12 Million to Censor Political Opponents on ‘Enemies List,’ Interfere in Elections: Documents
“THREAD: DHS coordinated with a group called the ‘Election Integrity Partnership'” to censor Biden’s opponents. I’m on the EIP’s list with @charliekirk11, @RepMTG, @DonaldJTrumpJr, @JackPosobiec & more. I was censored while I ran for Congress. Biden’s regime paid EIP groups 12M+!” Starbuck wrote in a Twitter thread.
“For all of us this was a gross violation of our rights and a blatantly illegal act by the US Government. In my specific case this was state sponsored election interference. In this thread I’ll explain who’s involved and what they did. They crossed lines that can’t be uncrossed. This is who makes up the EIP”:
- Stanford Internet Observatory (SIO)
- University of Washington’s Center for an Informed Public
- Atlantic Council’s DFR Lab
- Analytics firm Graphika
The White House is reportedly weighing a controversial measure to lower gas prices ahead of midterm elections
With an export ban in place, gas prices could then fall as the move would protect domestic supply. But oil industry trade groups have criticised the move, warning it could disrupt global energy markets in a Tuesday letter to Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm.
"Banning or limiting the export of refined products would likely decrease inventory levels, reduce domestic refining capacity, put upward pressure on consumer fuel prices and alienate US allies during a time of war," the heads of the American Petroleum Institute and American Fuel & Petrochemical Manufacturers wrote.
Meanwhile, the Biden administration is also scrambling to persuade OPEC and its allies not to make deep cuts to their oil output targets at a meeting Wednesday. Reduced supply to the oil market would likely drive up prices, which could then feed into higher prices for US gas.
Federal Court Rules DACA Unlawful but Preserves Policy for Current Recipients
A three-judge panel of the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a July 2021 decision from Texas federal judge Andrew Hanen, who said the Obama administration had no authority to impose DACA, according to a court filing obtained by Axios. The court blocked the Biden administration from enrolling new illegal immigrants, which would provide them with work permits and shield them from deportation, but said current beneficiaries could stay and that immigration officials could process DACA renewals.
“In our view, the defendants have not shown that there is a likelihood that they will succeed on the merits,” Chief Judge Priscilla Richman wrote Wednesday. “We also recognize that DACA has had profound significance to recipients and many others in the ten years since its adoption.”
Richman returned the case challenging the legality of the policy back to a lower court in Texas to examine a recent rule the Biden administration implemented in a maneuver to protect the program from litigation. The Biden administration, which appealed the 2021 ruling, codified DACA into regulatory law this August and revoked the 2012 memo drafted by former Department of Homeland Security secretary Janet Napolitano that formed the original program. Given Wednesday’s ruling, the Biden administration is expected to file a formal appeal that could eventually send the case to the Supreme Court to make a final judgment on DACA’s constitutionality.