This week, President Biden continued his habit of yelling nonsense and spinning fake tales. A heckler cut him off while he was discussing the care economy at Union Station in Washington, D.C. The UN defines the care economy as both paid (involved in the formal and informal sectors) and unpaid employment that involves providing care for others.
“Well, I will tell you what…you want to come make a speech or quiet up, okay?” The president said it aggressively. Then he glanced at the protester and decided against it since, well, he kind of seemed like a tough man. “I will not play around with him!” Biden took a step back and smiled, as though he knew Jill would chastise him later for losing his cool. “It appears like he may kidnap me!”
The most strange part of the speech, though, was when he abruptly yelled something that roughly resembled “Ask Me!” For assistance, I looked to the White House transcript, which translates to “AFSCME!” The American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees is what AFSCME is, according to Google, so maybe he was giving them a shout-out, but it was still a strange and unexpected moment.
But a Biden speech would not be the same without a few completely ludicrous and unfounded assertions. Here, he absurdly asserts that he has reduced the debt by $1 trillion.
This is such a hoax that even the left-leaning fact-checkers at Politifact have repeatedly refuted it.
Under Biden’s leadership, the yearly federal deficit decreased by $1.4 trillion between 2021 and 2022. That was a bigger deficit decrease than any one year prior. When comparing the two-year period from 2021 to 2023, there was a smaller but still significant decrease in the deficit—nearly $1.1 trillion. The primary reason for the drop was that the pandemic was an unprecedented historical event that demanded a swift and forceful government reaction. Even the smaller deficit during Biden’s administration is greater than all of the deficits during Trump’s. Even However, compared to the epidemic, the rate of increase in the national debt has slowed down.
The Peter G. Peterson Foundation forecasts that in 2024, the deficit will increase:
“In February 2024, the federal government posted a $296 billion deficit, $34 billion greater than the $262 billion deficit in the same month the previous year.”
Joe went on to say that he was an expert tax cutter.
It’s true that Biden’s massive budget proposal for 2025 appears to aim at both enriching the wealthy and stifling the middle class, despite the debatability of his allegation.
Members Jason Smith (MO-08) of the House Ways and Means Committee notes that Biden’s proposed tax increases would be significant.
“Leaving our competitive edge to China, President Biden’s $7 trillion tax hike on families and small companies would result in lower employment and higher costs. These tax increases affect workers, mom-and-pop company owners, the elderly approaching retirement age, and family farms and ranches—far from targeting the affluent. Additionally, Democrats will have an easier time seizing your life savings since the IRS would receive an additional $104 billion and have greater authority to approve fines.”
Finally, Biden claimed that throughout his time as a U.S. Senator, he traveled over a million miles for work, most likely on his cherished Amtrak trains. His house in Delaware is around 220 miles away from Washington, D.C., so that would equate to at least 4,546 journeys. Alternatively, as RNC Research noted, that is essentially twice to the moon and back.
Cognitively impaired Biden gets angry when a heckler interrupts him pic.twitter.com/Dnrix6uZyU
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) April 9, 2024
During his vice presidency, the president did record more than 1.2 million miles on Air Force aircraft, but I would want to see the invoices proving that he made that much rail travel over his career.
It was simply one more speech in an increasingly long string of ones where the frequently perplexed Biden will say anything to enhance his narrative, regardless of whether it is true or not.
Author: Scott Dowdy
