CNN’s Arlette Saenz argues there’s “a strategy” behind President Biden being MIA during this government funding fight, not that his brain is applesauce.

CBS’s Willie James Inman: “I’m gonna try to ask us a different way.”
KJP: “Yeah.”
Inman: “The President is still in office —”
KJP: “You’re going to get the same answer.”
Inman: “— I’m just gonna try. He’s still in office for a month.”
KJP: “Feel free.”

Inman: “The American people really haven’t heard from him on whether or not the government is going to shut down. Wouldn’t the message hit differently if the president were out there, countering the message that we’re hearing from the President-Elect and Elon Musk. Why isn’t he speaking on this?”

KJP: “Republicans are breaking their word. They are breaking their word to support a bipartisan agreement. We would not be in this position if Republicans in the House did not break their word … Instead of going with a bipartisan agreement, they put forth something that would pave the way for their billionaire friends. That’s not about the American people. That is just not about the American people and we have been here before when we’re trying to make sure that there’s not a government shutdown. The president has had the same kind of the same strategy. He knows how to work with Congress and so in this instance, Republicans blew this deal up. They did. They blew it up and they need to fix it. This is not for the President to fix. This is not for us to fix. This is for Republicans in Congress to fix this — the mess that they created.”

NBC’s Gabe Gutierrez: “I’ll go at the question in another way. In this moment, is the President leading?”

KJP: “The President is the President of the United States, and he is leading and to be very clear, as it relates to this, I’ve said this many times before, moments ago, I’ll say it again, we have done this strategy before. This is not new where we have said Congress needs to deal with this. This is their number one job is to keep the government open, and there was an agreement on the on the table, not just an agreement, a bipartisan agreement. Speaker Johnson created this mess. He needs to fix it. Period.”

Gutierrez: “To be clear, the strategy is he is leading by staying in the background.”

KJP: “The strategy is Congress Republicans in particular need to do their jobs and get out of their own way and focus on the American people, not their billionaire friends. That is what needs to happen, and that’s what the president wants to see.”

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