By Steve BermanJOE BIDEN and his administration has insulted the intelligence of every American voter, and they don’t care.
Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Myorkas waived 26 federal laws protecting the air, water, and endangered species to continue building the wall approved under Donald Trump’s administration in 2019. This flies in the face of Biden’s campaign promise of “not another foot” of border wall would be built under his administration.
It also insults our intelligence by the administration’s claims that a wall is ineffective, while building the wall. From the White House transcript:
I’m speaking for the President. I’m saying that he has said that he does not believe a border wall is effective. That’s what he was asked. He has said that for some time now, and it still remains to be the case.
He asked — right? — he asked Congress multiple times, his team has asked Congress to reappropriate the funds. They refuse to do that. We’re going to comply by law.
Since when has President Biden—or any Democrat in office—decided they HAD TO use appropriated funds that a previous Congress, under Republican control, passed to do something they didn’t feel was the right thing to do?
I was today years old when I found out that Democrats follow the letter of the law and don’t turn to the courts, or political shenanigans, or the media, to try to do what they want despite clear Congressional guidance.
Biden’s White House staff thinks we’re idiots, apparently. Actually, they don’t think we’re idiots. They know we know better, but they don’t care. As long as Biden’s likely opponent in November 2024 is Donald Trump, the White House can continue insulting our intelligence because no matter what they do, they can’t out-stupid or out-insult Trump.
The one thing the White House under Biden can never say is that something Trump did was right, or good. If Satan himself built the wall, Biden would praise the devil before giving credit to Trump.
In fact, a wall is effective. It keeps the number of illegal border crossings a lot lower than it would be without a wall. It won’t 100% stop illegal immigration over our southern border, but it will stop it from unlimited growth. It’s like the fat person saying that not eating thirty Twinkies a day won’t stop them from being fat. But it will stop them from getting fatter. A wall works, but the Biden administration won’t ever admit it, though they will build it.
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