On 5/13/2022, White House press secretary Jen Psaki’s final briefing with reporters went off the rails, chaos erupted in the press briefing room after one reporter repeatedly shouted a question about fair access in the room. First she fought back tears and thanked members of the administration and the press corps. As Psaki began to take questions, Simon Ateba, the chief White House correspondent for Today News Africa, was heard yelling from the back of the press briefing room. “Why don’t you take questions from across the room?” Ateba asked as Associated Press reporter Zeke Miller attempted to get things started with a query about the ongoing baby formula shortage. “Why don’t you take questions from across the room? Because that’s not what you’ve done for the past 15 months,” Ateba shouted again. Ateba did not oblige and continued to shout over other reporters in the room, until Psaki jumped in and scolded Simon Ateba again as he interrupted Mary Bruce. “Simon, if you could respect your colleagues and other media reporters in here, that would be greatly appreciated. Go ahead, Mary,” she said. Psaki has been criticized in the past for strictly sticking to answering questions from reporters in the first few rows of the briefing room, often missing out on questions from outlets such as The Post, the Washington Examiner etc.
Psaki wasn’t any more help at her final press briefing when asked how long the shortages were expected to be an issue. “Really important question, but hard for us to make an assessment,’’ she said. Psaki was also pushed on complaints from Rep. Kat Cammack (R-FL) that the White House is “sending pallets, pallets of baby formula to the border.” Psaki cited the Flores Settlement Agreement, which imposes basic standards of care for and release of immigrant children. “We also think it’s morally the right thing to do,” she said. “It is the law. But we believe that when children and babies, or babies I should say, are crossing the border with a family member, that providing them formula is morally right. And so, we certainly support the implementation of it.”
On 5/10/2022, Joe Biden delivered remarks on inflation and his plan to lower costs. One reporter asked about Senator Rick Scott saying Biden should resign, is unwell, unfit for office, incoherent, incapacitated and confused. Biden forced a smile and shot back, “Resign, that’s a good idea.”
Joe Biden claims Democrats “control all three branches of government”. “The first is, we’re in power. That’s the first thing. you justifiably right, we control all 3 branches of gov”
Joe Biden says his policies have helped, not hurt, inflation. A reporter asked, “do you take any responsibility for the inflation in this country? Do you take any responsibility — your policies?” Biden replied, “I think our policies help, not hurt. Think about what they say. The vast majority of the — of the — of the economists think that this is going to be a real tough problem to solve. But it’s not because of spending. We brought down the deficit. ”
On 5/10/2022, Senator Rick Scott’s statement, today, ahead of President Joe Biden’s speech bizarrely blaming Senator Rick Scott and other Republicans for Biden’s record-breaking inflation, Senator Scott released the following statement: “It’s simple. The most effective thing Joe Biden can do to solve the inflation crisis he created is resign. He’s the problem. Getting him out of office is a quick and easy solution.
On 5/11/2022, Joe Biden traveled to Illinois to deliver remarks on inflation and food supply shortages, and addressed the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers 40th annual conference at McCormick Place Convention Center in Chicago after visiting a family farm in Kankakee, Illinois. Joe Biden began shouting out of blue (dementia) about food shortages caused by Democrat lockdowns, forgot there is also a food shortage happening under his administration. “Remember those long lines you’d see on the television – people lining up in all kinds of vehicles just to get a box of food in their trunk?!” Biden shouted. “How quickly we forget! People were hurting!”
Joe Biden asks if anyone in crowd is from Delaware, gets met with silence, then coughs into his hand. He says he inherited economy “on the brink of a great depression.” that’s not even close to true. As inflation wipes out wage gains: “it’s a good thing when Americans…have more money.” He repeats story about discussing gas prices as a family when he was a kid. He rambles about plan to lower costs for “things that make most people who work to have who need”. Biden, whose reckless policies have fueled inflation crisis: “we’re gonna beat inflation”. He claims his proposals “don’t cost the taxpayers more money” and he accuses republicans of wanting to raise taxes.
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