During remarks at the White House this week, President Joe Biden made one of his most disingenuous claims yet against Republicans.
“Congress needs to pass the supplemental funding for Ukraine before they break for the holiday recess -- before they give Putin the greatest Christmas gift they could possibly give him. And so -- because we've seen what happens when dictators don't pay the price for the damage and the death and the destruction they cause, and they keep going when no price is paid,” Biden said during a joint press conference with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
In other words, Biden is accusing Republicans of siding with Putin for daring to uphold their constitutional oaths to prioritize the sovereignty of the United States.
Contrary to Biden’s claims from the White House lectern, congressional Republicans have offered additional Ukraine aid coupled with asylum reform and border security. Border security is national security, which Border Patrol agents see by the hour.
“A federal law-enforcement source shared with FOX Business Network an internal officer safety alert dated December 13th that warns CBP agents to be vigilant after the Mexican military seized 10 improvised explosive devices (IEDs) at the border,” Fox Business reports. “The IEDs were found by Mexican authorities after Tucson border patrol observed gunshots at the U.S.-Mexico border and a Tucson supervisory border patrol agent arrested an armed person on the U.S. side who had a loaded AK-47 rifle, two loaded AK magazines, loose rounds and a handgun. CBP is warning its agents to ‘exercise extreme caution and should report any possible armed subjects approaching the border with possible explosive devices.’”
To his detriment, Biden is rejecting these dangerous facts and the realities on the ground.
Outside of the grave risk the Commander-in-Chief is posing to American citizens, he’s refusing to accept a political gift as a byproduct of Republicans doing their job to protect the sovereignty and safety of the United States.
For months, Democratic mayors around the country have been begging Biden to do something about the problem. Legislation offered by Republicans in the House and Senate would reform the asylum process, making it more difficult for millions to commit fraud, while bolstering real border security to deter cartels and human traffickers.
As for the politics, a new Wall Street Journal poll out this week shows likely voters believe President Donald Trump is better at handling the border issue than President Joe Biden by 30 points. It isn’t even close. That poll comes as a barrage of other polls show Biden losing to Trump in battleground states he needs to keep the White House for a second term.
Shockingly, even with the devastating polling numbers, Democratic Senator John Fetterman is one of the only Democrats on Capitol Hill with any sense of reality or urgency on this issue.
“It’s a reasonable conversation — until somebody can say there’s an explanation on what we can do when 270,000 people are being encountered on the border, not including the ones of course that we don’t know about,” Fetterman told NBC News. “To put that in reference, that is essentially the size of Pittsburgh, the second largest city in Pennsylvania.”
“Immigration is something near and dear to me, and I think we do have to effectively address it,” he continued.
If Biden weren’t beholden to the far left, which has become a majority of the Democratic Party in Washington, D.C., he would take the latest immigration reform offer from Republicans and file it as a win before 2024 officially arrives. He could categorize it not only as a win on working to blunt the massive flow of illegal immigration, which is weighing down local resources and destroying local budgets, but also claim victory on the argument he made to get elected: he can work with both sides of the aisle for the betterment of the country and behalf of the American people.
Instead, Biden continues to insist Americans protect the borders of Ukraine rather than their own. Republicans have offered to do both, and the White House, in partnership with Democrats on Capitol Hill, are stupidly rejecting the proposal.
