On 4/17/2022, Texas Democratic gubernatorial candidate Beto O’Rourke accused Texas Republican Gov. Greg Abbott of “spiking inflation” and “killing businesses” in the state with a truck inspection policy the governor repealed two days earlier after striking a deal with Mexican officials. Appearing on MSNBC’s “The Sunday Show,” O’Rourke made no mention of Abbott lifting the order two days earlier and said the governor’s policies are “ensuring higher prices for Texas consumers.”
“He just shut down almost all commercial traffic coming into the United States, which is spiking inflation, killing businesses, especially along the border and ensuring higher prices for Texas consumers and more supply shortages for those who want to buy groceries, for example, in the supermarket this weekend,” O’Rourke said. “He’s really hurting this state and providing no additional benefit for security or safety. That’s why so many people in Texas want a change.” Despite Abbott lifting the order, O’Rourke is labeling him the “inflation governor” who is “tanking” his state’s economy.
O’Rourke also slammed Abbott for bussing migrants to Washington, D.C., and accused the governor of endangering his state’s National Guardsmen by deploying them to the border. “This is another political stunt that Greg Abbott has pulled off that has done nothing to improve the safety and security of Texas or the rest of the country for that matter,” O’Rourke said. “It’s of a piece with his activation of 10,000 members of the National Guard whom he deployed to the Texas-Mexico border, where they have no powers to arrest or detain … They’ve been taken away from their families, from their communities, from their kids.”
Earlier this month, Abbott ordered that commercial trucks from Mexico undergo secondary inspections as part of a fight with the Biden administration over the border crisis. The governor lifted his immigration order Friday after reaching agreements with neighboring Mexican states that he said pledged new commitments to border security.
On 4/17/2022, New York City Mayor Eric Adams (D) said on ABC’s “This Week” lawmakers who voted against President Joe Biden’s massive spending package are “defunders of the police.” Anchor George Stephanopoulos said, “Mayor Adams, you promised to focus on … have continued to rise on your watch. How do you explain it? What more can be done?” Adams said, “You heard the narrative beforehand about defunding the police. Let me tell you what the defunders of the police are, those who didn’t vote on the Build Back Better bill.
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On 4/17/2022, Joe Biden’s Czar Ashish Jha said the pandemic is not over. ABC’s “This Week” host George Stephanopoulos asked Dr. Jha, “Is Covid still a crisis?” “The pandemic is not over, as much as we all wish it were. We’re in much better shape than we were but we’ve got to keep plugging away at managing this virus and getting it under better control,” Dr. Jha said. However Jha says “Title 42 Is Not Necessary At The Border.”
O’Rourke never Title 42, accused Abbott “inflation governor”. NYC Mayor: GOPs against BBB are defunders. Pandemic not over but Title 42 Not Necessary.