On 3/12/2024, Fox Reporter Jacqui Heinrich Grills Karine Jean-Pierre on executive action to secure the border

Karine Jean-Pierre: Biden Waffles Again, Isn’t Considering Exec Action To Secure Border
Karine Jean-Pierre confirms Biden is no longer considering executive action to secure the border — even though he dismantled border security by executive order immediately after taking office.

Heinrich: The president said yesterday that he was hoping executive action on the border would happen by itself, that Congress would legislate it. Can you just confirm for us that this indicates that he’s no longer considering executive action on the border?

KJP: Well, the president has been very clear, and I’ve been very clear anytime I’ve asked about executive actions here … let’s not forget the reason why it was stopped, the reason that it didn’t go forward is because Republicans were told in Congress to reject it by the former president, that’s what happened. They chose politics …

Heinrich: I understand his preference to legislate, but the reason I’m asking is we’ve had conflicting answers over the span of a few weeks from the president on whether executive action was something he could do. He first said that he had done everything he could with the stroke of a pen, then he said that there was more he could do, but that he would prefer that Congress legislate this. And you know, things were under consideration, potentially for executive orders that would make changes to, you know, the border, who could come across, and then yesterday it seemed like he—

KJP: I disagree. I think there are a couple of parts here. You’re asking me if there’s an executive action that we can take, and what we’re saying is there are no executive actions that would have done the work … We are always looking at options, we have said this, we’re always looking at options, executive actions, right, to see how to move forward. But we believe fundamentally, we believe …

Heinrich: I understand what you’re saying about the bill, I do. Yes or no, you’re not—

KJP: what I’m saying to you is that we always look at all our options, that’s what I’m saying to you. But we are saying also is the only way to move forward to actually deal with this issue, the challenges that we’re seeing that Republicans rejected because of the last president, because of Donald Trump, is that

Heinrich: on a different subject, why was the president in that interview using the Gaza Ministry of Health just run by Hamas, their numbers on the death toll in Gaza, there was a 30,000 figure that he cited on MSNBC the last time, he cited Hamas numbers, officials here dismissed it as a reference to publicly available data, but I would assume that the US has its own assessment of what the death toll is.

KJP: Very clear here, there are publicly available data that you all have, you all also are taking a look at that we are citing as well, that’s what we’re talking about, that’s what the president number two then you could use whatever you want. I’m just saying that, but we have said, we’ve been really clear, there are publicly available data that showed…

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KJP: Biden Waffles Again, No Exec Action To Secure Border. Q: Yes or No?