President Joe Biden speaks at Steamfitters Local 602 in Springfield, Virginia on Thursday.
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Thursday speech to a group of union activists and Democratic politicians in Springfield, Va. After refusing even to negotiate spending reforms with House Republicans to secure an increase in the federal debt limit, Mr. Biden is now promising not to agree with them on any legislation at all. At first blush the idea may sound intriguing to those who favor small government. But this Biden promise is sure to be broken once someone explains to the President that his beloved spending bills—and all other kinds of bills—have to pass both houses of Congress before becoming law. Perhaps the White House will be issuing a correction, as it did for another part of the Thursday speech.
Foolish and false presidential comments are not exactly news, but Mr. Biden’s Thursday remarks were striking. Just warming up with his standard distortions early in the address, here’s how the President reacted to the news of slowing GDP growth in the fourth quarter of 2022:
Every three months, the economic outlook of America is laid out on an official report—a government report that—on the state of the economy. It came out today, this morning. And I’m not sure—and I mean it sincerely—the news could have been any better.
Even though the economy is growing less than half as fast as it did in the first quarter of 2021 when he took office, Mr. Biden hailed the alleged success of his economic program and claimed that the economy had been “reeling” when he took office.
After a few partisan smears of House Republicans, Mr. Biden moved on to the aforementioned pledge to “veto everything they send me,” which of course won’t be kept.
The President then proceeded through a series of false claims, some of which are noted in a CNN “fact check,” including one that remains egregious…
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