President Biden declined to restore the most effective Donald Trump-era border policy — and blamed America’s southern neighbor for the massive flood of migrants into the US, House Speaker Mike Johnson recalled Thursday.
Johnson (R-La.) told The Post in an interview that Biden, 81, refused to reverse course and reinstate his predecessor’s “Remain in Mexico” policy even after migrant crossings began shattering records in late 2023 and into 2024.
“‘Just do “Remain in Mexico” again,’” Johnson, 52, recounted his entreaties to the president. “I begged Biden myself, personally, to do that. And he said he wouldn’t.”
“‘It’s complicated,’” Biden responded flatly, in Johnson’s retelling. “‘Mexico doesn’t want that.’”
“I said, ‘You can make it less complicated — you just show some leadership,’” the speaker went on. “‘With all due respect, sir, you’re the president of the United States. It doesn’t matter what Mexico wants. You tell them.’”
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Everything but tech support.
This whole running on the things Dems WILL do, but have done the exact opposite on to date has really turned my stomach this last year. I think I have developed an ulcer.
They will close the border!
But they won’t start until complete morons elect them, disgusting. And to do so goes against KH’s STATED beliefs. She not only thinks illegal immigrants are doing nothing wrong, she wants to give them free Medicare.
They will cut taxes on the middle class!
Even after openly stating for 3 years that they will not continue the Trump cuts that we directly felt, and the majority of the private sector middle class votes are Republican, now Dems are campaigning on protecting the middle class when it has been their clear goal to dismantle it in the 21st century. Right in the Dem plan is a 16% increase in payroll tax to help pay for their new tax cut plan. Does the lower class pay for that? Do the wealthy? So they will give 25k assistance to every new home buyer and all the other ‘tax breaks’ they are promising the middle class at the expense of, you guessed it, the middle class. The only reason this just might swing a single vote is that Republicans have done virtually nothing for the middle class in that same time, so targeting self-styled middle class voters with specific desires (owning a home, for example) may just get an idiot or two to vote for them. This is just one more pick high majority Dem voter groups as the winners at the expense of the Republican middle class.
Following that, Dems will make the millionaires and higher PAY THEIR SHARE!
So Dems are going to make their donors pay more, and that is why she has “at least” 76 billionaire donors while Trump has “nearly 50”. The quotes just let you know that the info is from a left leaning news source. Anywhere in the 40s is nearly fifty and at least 76 could mean 125 for all we know. They needed to make that sound as close as possible. The one thing 21st century Dems have been consistent on is rewarding their supporters, but KH is going to shake her donors down with HUUUGE taxes? They never have been a middle class champion in the past and never will be, but Dem voters are finally programmed deeply enough that they can listen to a bald faced obvious lie and still react positively to it.
Look at all the new jobs created!
They have been the Party of no opportunity even for their own constituents. As expected, no one is mentioning the 1 million jobs that were taken off the totals back in August and the September jobs have the same fake high numbers that only an idiot could believe after this much lying. And even CNN reported that the downward adjustments were limited to the private sector and the official numbers will not be changed anywhere until early 2025. This means that anyone looking for data will only see the false data until well after the election. The only job market with solid gains was in entering the many new Government jobs. So the huge increases in Government jobs is actually the one true job report. Just one more way to hurt the middle class, because who pays for the new Government jobs?
So many more…There is a big difference between campaign promises we know they will never keep and blatantly lying about everything they have done and will do (not to mention the blatant lies about their counterparts, many of which they are the real guilty party). Dem promises are well beyond false campaign promises. Unless KH has diametrically changed her stance on dozens of issues since taking over the candidacy, the blind dem voters who seem to believe anything a Dem pol says, will vote for a Party that has no intention to follow through with any of the promises that they are running on. But that is not the greatest marvel. Dem voters are so far gone, they will vote Democrat even if they fully believe every campaign issue was a lie, because despite historical record, they still believe in the lies told about Trump that came from the same mouths that lied to them about every aspect and issue save one concerning their own Party.
T. The number 1 mistake you always make is believing you KNOW why democrats vote for a democrat. It changes every election. A lot of this election is a vote AGAINST Trump. It drives people. For me, it is because I have seen a DJT presidency and understand that if he is elected, he will do absolutely nothing. Maybe he lowers taxes (or extends the current cuts). But he has NO PLAN for anything else. Look at the things he has said he would do.
1. Lower energy costs by 50%. HOW??? Magic? We are already pumping more oil now than we have in the past. What will he do that will lower WE-Energies prices?
2. Eliminate taxes on… tips? Overtime? whatever else he decides in the moment. I have a $100 donation to the RNC if he gets those passed.
3. End the war in the middle east? Sure. That hasn’t worked for hundreds of years.
4. Stop Crime and restore safety. Is he going to fund local police?
5. Lower Health Care costs. Again… HOW. What is the solution? He had 4 years to do that and couldn’t put forth a single idea.
6. Tariffs. Basically he wants to tax everyone. Because that is what tariffs are.
Literally the only successful thing he did was shutting down the border. So if you are a single issue voter, great. Vote for DJT. I do believe that he would shut down the border. But that is only a portion of the immigration problem. We need to hire hundreds of judges to TRY and catch up on border immigration cases. As long as the US is a beacon of freedom, we will attract people. And we NEED a way to deal with them. We need to overhaul the immigration process completely.
Trump whipped his followers into a frenzy and then sat on his hands for 2 hours when they attacked the capitol. That is enough for me not to vote for him. He is a Chaos machine. All he will do is drive us further into debt IF he were to get any of his policies implemented.
I don’t think KH is going to pull us out of the debt spiral we are in either. But I will take her SCOTUS picks over Trumps if they come up. She won’t tank the economy like I think that Trump might. The economy is actually doing very well right now. Biden was able to pretty smoothly get us thru the post pandemic global crap. And quicker than most countries. Our inflation rate has been below 4% for over a year now.
And she doesn’t seem to want to buddy up with every dictator on the planet.
PS. From April 2018-2019 Trumps jobs numbers were reduced by 500K vs the original numbers shown (and then he cried fake news). This isn’t a new thing. In 2009 they were reduced by 900K. Some people are always looking for the nefarious when there just isn’t anything there.
Oh, get that ulcer taken care of. If all this politics is causing that much stress, you should think about taking a break.
>T. The number 1 mistake you always make is believing you KNOW why democrats vote for a democrat.
Dead wrong there Simon says. I have no idea why Dems vote for the candidates they do anymore.
And the Biden admin did so much more than Trump! They started up inflation, increasing costs in almost all consumer areas, used the DOJ as a personal revenge toy, though they are advertising that that is what Trump will do…what they did. Even though he can’t. Their followers spewed out another 4 years of even worse education for record amounts of money. Yet they trumpet that Trump will defund education and dismantle the dept of Education. That should be reason enough to vote FOR Trump right there for anyone with small children. As a Democrat, is it nice to know that the pass rate of public school kids in WI will 100% be up next year? Dem leaders lowered the pass rating significantly so worse scores than last year will yield better results. That is the Dem way.
And sorry, but judging Trump’s possible second Presidency by his first is like judging KH by the Biden Presidency. KH is significantly more leftist/socialist than Biden, but she is not being judged by her words and actions, she is being judged by the far less damning parameters of Joe’s failures or successes if you see some. Trump had virtually no Republican backing and still managed quite a few more successes than are willing to consider. He was a leader without any Party backing, no one is a ‘success’ in politics without the normal tools to get work done. Just one instance was the handling of Covid. He tried to downplay it to allay fears EXACTLY as the Obama admin did for the swine flu while pushing operation warp speed hard in the background. Then Dems stepped in with heavy fear mongering ad more pretend expert lies and forcibly shut down the economy with the full knowledge that Trump’s one term numbers would look horrible and whoever led the ‘recovery’ would look great. If you shut down over 25% of a working economy and then restart it under a new regime, just opening jobs back up looks (to an idiot like you have been on occasion) like huge job gains if you don’t compare it to pre-pandemic years.
>I don’t think KH is going to pull us out of the debt spiral we are in either.
Have you looked at HER plans? She wants Medicare for all non-citizens and that is just one part of the socialist spending they have ready to serve up. If Dems win, I fully believe Social security and Medicare will be out of money before I retire in at most 5 years from now. We can’t afford to help our citizens with retirement, but if we can bring in another 10-15 million illegals and convicts in the next 4 years and she has her way we will be over 40-50 trillion in debt by the end of her first 4 years. Dem spending rates have always been higher, they have just raised taxes on the middle class to pay for part of them so it is not as obvious. And her real plans have no intention of getting any more money from billionaires than before unless it is into Dem Party pockets.
I don’t just think it, I know neither Dems nor Reps will pull us out of debt. We would need a constitutional convention. I DREAM of a President that would dismantle many of the departments in the Executive branch. Every Gov job is money out of our pockets. If we put several hundred thousand Government workers out of work, it would suck for them, but it would actually help the economy. And on the other side, every private sector job that Government has driven away hurts our economy. That alone is worth taking the department of education down. They no longer teach democracy anyway, they teach categorical liberalism and that too loses workers that would help the economy and just gains people for the doles.
>And she doesn’t seem to want to buddy up with every dictator on the planet.
Umm, she seems fine with HAMAS, Hezbollah and Iran. But I guess most of them aren’t actually governing anything they are just terrorists so maybe you are right in a literal sense. And everyone knows by now that she has zero ability to think on her feet. She won’t talk to any of those dictators at all, her handlers wouldn’t let her. But rest assured, if Dem handlers saw a political point to be gained, KH would be skinny dipping in Kim Jong Un’s pool.
>PS. From April 2018-2019 Trumps jobs numbers were reduced by 500K vs the original numbers shown (and then he cried fake news). This isn’t a new thing. In 2009 they were reduced by 900K. Some people are always looking for the nefarious when there just isn’t anything there.
Okay so Trump’s worst year had a downgrade of 500k with Dems and Reps and all the agencies wanting him to look bad, while Biden’s was almost a million and Obama’s (worst?) year was 900k. More Dem number problems is what I see. There is virtually no difference between almost a million and a half million to you? And the shit portion was the Dem maneuvering involved. They saw the million job mark down looming that is normally reported at the end of October and moved up the announcement because they know for solid fact that their followers can’t remember back more than a week or two. Get it out and give it no media coverage so it can be forgotten by election time and the “great” September numbers (and undoubtedly October numbers) can be used now. Heck, most Dems probably believe it was all just fake news because the lefty media sources barely covered it.
The only electoral issue that Dem pols still seem to believe in is abortion rights, but that can only go so far because the issue is pretty dormant right now. So they have to pump up the lies about Reps on the issue instead. Would Trump sign a national abortion ban even if Reps pushed it hard enough to get it passed through Congress? He has said no, but Dem ads try to bully us with scare tactics that he will somehow make that happen, as if he could. Everything else is wild west: Racism is okay again, lying is a Dem platform foundation, using the DOJ as a political weapon, inflation is a thing again, voter suppression is cool thing to do now apparently, the list goes on.
Li’l JonnyV’s gaslighting is near epic here.
First, let’s address tariffs. Li’l Jonny seems to forget that the overall cost-of-living from 2016-2019 increased by ONLY 2.13% in THREE years. See: https://www.in2013dollars.com/Housing/price-inflation/2016-to-2019/
Second, Li’l Jonny’s 1900’s thinking makes the assumption (ass-u-me) that Red China is not a mercantile state, or that offshore manufacturers in, say, Europe, will happily give up the US market for their goods rather than reduce their prices to match tariff increases. He’s wrong, of course, but…….
Third, Li’l Jonny conveniently forgets that Biden KEPT nearly all of Trump’s tariffs–with the difference that his energy policy and his wild spending habits did have a disastrous inflationary result.
As to reducing the price of energy? Hey, Jonny: he’ll do exactly what he did last time to bring the cost of gasoline down to $1.XX/gallon. Give the producers a stable reg environoment, jawbone OPEC, and push for more drilling and refineries.
Solve the war in the Middle East? Maybe not. But then, the US has no national interests in Israel, which means we should stay out of it. As mentioned earlier in this blog, having “a friend” there did not prevent 9/11–and maybe our choice of “friends” is the problem. The Sauds and the Egyptians liked us a lot–until Biden.
Healthcare costs? Resume chopping down regulatory schemes and take an aggressive approach to DBM’s and Big Pharma instead of taking their campaign donations like the Democrat does. And he didn’t have four years, pal. He had 2–and a lot of very wrong Cabinet and sub-cabinet people. This time he’ll schmeiss those bastards and pick people whose interests do not lie in D.C. lobbying jobs like the ones ex-GE people covet.
Wait!! We forgot Kammy’s program to create new housing inflation by kicking $25K of OUR money into housing grants.
Not to mention Kammy’s program to send $1 million or so to black entrepreneurs. Not white ones, not native American ones, not Mexican ones…….only blacks.
Those are programs that you can back, eh? Shall we talk about your judgment skills?
Dad29, “This time…” That is my favorite. Like an abused spouse, “next time it will be better… I promise! Next time he won’t be so dumb. Next time he will surround himself with MORE sycophants.” Definitely not the 20+ people that worked with him that won’t support him for another term. LOL. Yes, he had 4 years. Not 2. 4 years is the term. If he isn’t good enough to get work done when the odds are stacked up against him, maybe he shouldn’t be doing the job. No excuses. Same criticism I had of Obama. Obama got a lot done when he had a majority, but once that went away, he couldn’t work with Mitch and then nothing significant happened. That is a HIM problem. As the leader, you need to LEAD and trade and negotiate. All things that Trump couldn’t do apparently.
He will push for MORE drilling and refineries. You mean the level of drilling we have now, which is the highest it has ever been. We haven’t built a new large refinery in almost 50 years. There have been a few satellite ones over the past 20 years, but nothing with significant capacity. And every refinery is a PITA to build, because no one wants one nearby. They aren’t exactly a beacon of beauty.
FWIW. She did announce she would expand the loan proposal to Latino entrepreneurs as well. And I don’t CARE if it is pointed only towards minorities. If they are the ones having the most issues raising capital and securing loans, then fine. Let’s make a program to focus on them and help them.
Man, the right is SO scared that white people are going to be left behind or something. There is 10000 years of evidence that says we will do just fine. I’m not worried.
T. How blinded do you have to be by politics to think that “Biden started the inflation”? You realize that it was coming no matter WHO was in office, right? It was a WORLDWIDE issue. Much like the pandemic that caused it. Trump would have been hit by the exact same problem if he was re-elected. Like… you understand that. Right?!? Or are you so blinded by politics to understand how the global economy worked. Go ahead and look at every other first world country’s interest rate history over the past 10 years. So once again, if you think that Trump would have been immune to that… I have a bridge to sell you.
And frankly, I think that the Biden administration did a great job guiding us thru it. The Federal Reserve wasn’t perfect, but we didn’t hit a recession or depression like MANY people thought we would. It was painful for a bit, but we got thru it to the other side. And there are still improvements to be made. I don’t have the faith that DJT would have been able to do ANY better, and possibly much worse most likely. Trump seems to be really good at leading while ahead. He inherited a really good Obama economy and really didn’t make it much better than what it was when he came into office.
And as always, you try to equate someone who is critical of Israel’s approach to HAMAS, Iran, & Lebanon as being pro Hamas. And that is just a flat out lie. As clever as the Israeli beeper explosions were, it was awful and indiscriminate bombing with no way of knowing WHO was nearby or in control of those devices. Terrorism basically. I am as happy as anyone that the HAMAS leaders are being killed. But as many of us have screamed about the attacks on Gaza, it doesn’t appear that Israel has much of a concern for Palestine lives, civilian or not. Or their human rights if you read some of the reports coming out about how they are treating them after being captured.
But don’t equate criticism of Israel with a sympathy for Hamas. There is a serious concern that Israel is pushing us closer to a full blown world war, and people are right to be critical of them. If you can’t see that, you are once again blinded by politics.
I was extremely critical of Packer’s Joe Barry defense. It doesn’t mean I was rooting for the Vikings.
>Much like the pandemic that caused it. Trump would have been hit by the exact same problem if he was re-elected.
Thanks to Democrats closing down the economy from the pandemic, that would likely have been so. Do you know that while the European union also hit around 20% from 2011-2022 they have been recovering since. Meanwhile, Sweden, the pathway Trump was going down has averaged 1.1% yearly. No pal, Dems made the inflation happen and they did it on purpose to get elected. Your Party is moldier than month old bread.
>And as always, you try to equate someone who is critical of Israel’s approach to HAMAS, Iran, & Lebanon as being pro Hamas.
Not really, just the politicians liberals vote for (and I have said that every time before, liberals do show approval for those they vote for). I don’t think you are pro-HAMAS, you just project anti-Semite. Liberals as a group can take the Jimmy Carter apologist and catering approach to terrorism all you want, it doesn’t make it a good way, though. Dem pols are rooting for HAMAS simply because Israeli supporters are conservative and you ARE cheering/voting for them.
She did announce she would expand the loan proposal to Latino entrepreneurs as well. And I don’t CARE if it is pointed only towards minorities
Pointing free money to certain racial groups is……..ahhh……….RACISM. The Constitution forbids that. But we know that you’re a post-Constitutional kinda guy…..
By the way, the last time there was peace in the Middle East was when Trump was President.
You’re welcome for the fact-check.
how the global economy worked
So you argue that ‘global’ inflation caused US inflation? ‘Splain to us, Lucy, how Argentina’s inflation did NOT cause US inflation. Or–since pictures are better for your understanding, let’s look at the annual inflation rate in Germany 2020-date. I see 2.92% and 3.91% in ’21 and ’22, with DEFLATION this year. https://www.macrotrends.net/global-metrics/countries/DEU/germany/inflation-rate-cpi
So no, pal. Inflation is a Bidenomics thing. Next time, try using “facts.”
Really, peace in the middle east during Trump?? So, all the arms and tunnels that HAMAS was accumulating during the Trump administration was for peace??? Interesting take. In 2018 when 183 Palestinians were killed and 6000 wounded when they stormed the perimeter fence, and Israel destroyed 50+ targets in Gaza in retaliation… that was “peace in the middle east”. You and I sure have different ideas of what peace is.
Yes, GLOBAL inflation. World shipping lanes shut down. Workers being impossible to hire and keep. Major cities and ports around the world SHUT DOWN. And of course, there were countries that fared better than others, usually the more isolationist ones. But Germany’s inflation rate jumped to over 8% in Oct of 2022. FACTS. Take a look for yourself. Their average inflation rate over the previous 10 years quadrupled in 2023. And maybe I am missing something, but I am not seeing ANY deflation this year. I see lower inflation rates in Germany than previous years.
https://tradingeconomics.com/germany/inflation-cpi
Taken right from the site and chart YOU linked to.
Germany inflation rate for 2023 was 5.95%, a 0.93% decline from 2022.
Germany inflation rate for 2022 was 6.87%, a 3.81% increase from 2021.
Germany inflation rate for 2021 was 3.07%, a 2.92% increase from 2020.
Germany inflation rate for 2020 was 0.14%, a 1.3% decline from 2019.
U.S. inflation rate for 2023 was 4.12%, a 3.89% decline from 2022.
U.S. inflation rate for 2022 was 8.00%, a 3.3% increase from 2021.
U.S. inflation rate for 2021 was 4.70%, a 3.46% increase from 2020.
U.S. inflation rate for 2020 was 1.23%, a 0.58% decline from 2019.
The US has had a general higher average inflation rate historically, ours spiked sooner, we also came out quicker. Germany NOW is back closer to what their “resting rate” is of about 2%. While we have been just barely above that at around 3%, but dropping over the past 6 months. So… do you just not know how to read charts? Feel free to admit you were wrong on this one.
T. Do you want to look at all the Red States with R Governers that shut down? That was ALL democrats? Interesting. There were 7 states that didn’t issue “stay at home” orders. And even those shut down many public buildings. Even Red states like FL, Nebraska, Georgia all issues stay at home orders. Go ahead and try to rewrite history and try to forget how deadly that first wave of COVID was for people. Try to “blame it on the democrats” all you want. But again, this was a WORLDWIDE issue that no one was sure what exactly we were dealing with. But, I am sure it helps you sleep better at night to just “blame the democrats”. Must be nice to live in that fantasy bubble.
You’re right on Deutscheland inflation. Read the “increase/decrease” chart, not the rate chart.
But I also ran a search on ‘port closings 2021 (and 2022). None came up, although many ports were overcrowded with goods due to Fauci’s ChinaVirus.
No doubt you have documents on your claim….
FWIW, Wiki doesn’t list your 2018 events as a ‘conflict.’ The first mention of Israel-Hamas conflict is under Harris/Biden, 2023. Smoke that peace-pipe, pal.
Well every kid in school is taught not to use wiki without checking citations. I am sure they don’t list every back and forth on there.
Here is a research paper on the effects of the port closures.
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/370931444_Port_Closure_Due_to_the_Covid-19_Pandemic_in_the_Law_of_Carriage_of_Goods_By_Sea_and_Unidroit_Principles_of_International_Commercial_Contracts
OK, I read tbe abstract of your link.
Unless I pull the words apart and then select I N F L A T I O N (like a Vanna White veto) that report does not say “INFLATION” was a result of FauciFlu at the ports.
Wiki only covered meaningful events. And like you don’t care about blatant racism, I don’t care about minor fistfights. But now that Israel is bombing downtown Tehran—–oh—-wait—that’s under Biden/Harris, ain’a?
Not under Trump…….
>T. Do you want to look at all the Red States with R Governers that shut down? That was ALL democrats? Interesting. There were 7 states that didn’t issue “stay at home” orders.
And those 7 state Governors (all Rs) with the guts to not bow to pressure all did well in the economy and education matrices on the Covid subject state by state. There was a lot of pressure from the Dem media machine (aka, MSM) to close everything down and sanctions against any States refusing to shut down were promised. But if you don’t count any of the Dem created hysteria, ‘expert’ lies or threats then, as usual, you are the one ignoring and re-writing history. Check up on the amount of covid relief money that went to those 7 states, the threats were carried through.
So sure, there are also a lot of Rs that are not in any way conservative and they will follow any national Government mandate to keep the money pouring in. Dem concentrations of national power this century favor whoever is sitting in office and I have said my whole life there was never much difference in DEMONSTRATED ideology between Rs and Ds. Rs are not blameless and few of them supported Trump who I was referring to, not all Reps, by the way. You are the one who continually deflects by trying to make any comment about Trump’s first term equate to all Reps. Personally I would say that Republicans helped Democrats hurt Trump’s designs significantly more often than they tried to help him for myriad reasons. So okay, I could amend my statement to ‘Dems and anti-Trump Reps’, but it wasn’t Rep sponsored media or ‘experts’ that hammered at the public and made all the sanction threats. I wasn’t praising Reps here, but the push for closing came overwhelmingly from Democratic leaders, Dem mouthpieces like Fauci and the media machine that favors their every word (even if Dems go all racist. I admit I was surprised that most libs swallowed that one without batting an eye, so Dems are getting more and more brazen as libs prove over and over they will swallow anything and still vote Dem). And the reason for that was that Government gained a lot of permanent control powers from the shutdown and pretty much all national politicians in the US today were for that. If most or all Reps fully backed Trump policies and experts weren’t willing to lie for money and power, we might have had a very different outcome from the Covid event. We would even have had less deaths due to Covid on record. There may have been more death actually due to it, but without the CDC ordering extreme conditions under which a death not being due to Covid and offering money to hospitals to MAKE the deaths Covid related, more honest numbers would have been reported.
>Go ahead and try to rewrite history and try to forget how deadly that first wave of COVID was for people.
No thanks, I’ll leave that to Democrats. They are still working overtime on it, so I won’t disturb them.