Here are just some questions the ‘basement president’ is dodging

President Joe Biden on Tuesday signed the Inflation Discount Act, which spends $437 billion on environmental and healthcare applications.
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President Biden signed his newest spending boondoggle Tuesday and once more didn't take any questions from the press.

Biden has appeared at simply three solo press conferences this yr, not often takes spontaneous queries (may fall off the bike) and doesn’t do one-on-one interviews. The “basement technique” Democrats employed in 2020 has turn into the “basement presidency.” Biden is extra phantom than commander in chief.

Just some questions Biden is dodging:

• It’s been a yr since your disastrous pullout from Afghanistan. Why has nobody been fired for the Taliban immediately taking energy and the horrible deaths of 13 service members?

• In April, The New York Instances reported that Biden “privately advised members of his inside circle late final yr that he believes former President Donald Trump needs to be prosecuted.” Would you actually have us consider that such reviews didn’t put stress on Legal professional Normal Merrick Garland to behave? Do you know that the Mar-a-Lago raid was going to occur? Are you speaking to the Justice Division proper now about doable prices?

• The Put up has reported that you simply met with a variety of Hunter Biden’s enterprise companions whilst you have been vp. Do you continue to declare you by no means talked to Hunter about enterprise? What favors did you do for his purchasers?

• Mayors Muriel Bowser of DC and Eric Adams of New York Metropolis are begging for federal assist to take care of waves of unlawful immigrants. Why received’t you assist them, or the border cities which can be completely overwhelmed? Do you admit your open borders are unsustainable? Do you will have any plan to restrict unlawful immigration into the USA?

• Inflation remains to be at document highs. The “Inflation Discount Act” will do nothing to decrease inflation, the CBO says — why was the identify of the invoice a lie? And do you will have any precise plan to decrease inflation?

And people are only a few of the matters that Biden is dodging. Clearly, his workforce simply desires to expire the clock, hoping that if he doesn’t reply any robust questions, maybe nobody will discover how dangerous issues are going. And it’s working: The press is touting Democrats’ wonderful “successes” and Biden’s forthcoming “victory lap.”

If that is victory, we’d hate to see defeat.