Where’s Joe?
As members of Congress scramble to pass a government funding bill to avoid a shutdown Friday night, President-elect Donald Trump hit TRUTH Social to remind everyone that the current Joe Biden is still President for one more month.
“If there is going to be a shutdown of government, let it begin now, under the Biden Administration, not after January 20th, under ‘TRUMP.’ This is a Biden problem to solve, but if Republicans can help solve it, they will!” Trump shared on TRUTH.
Trump also shared the following: “Congress must get rid of, or extend out to, perhaps, 2029, the ridiculous Debt Ceiling. Without this, we should never make a deal. Remember, the pressure is on whoever is President.”
Biden has been MIA during the funding fight — something CNN’s in-house Republican Scott Jennings brought up on the failing network Thursday night.
Jennings was asked to react to comments made by Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-WA) in which she blasted Donald Trump and Elon Musk for getting involved in the passing of the spending bill.
Watch the clip below:
WATCH — CNN's @ScottJenningsKY on the government funding battle: Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal "said, 'who's the President right now?' I mean, who's the President-Elect? But she asked the right question first, who is the President right now? Joe Biden, who we rarely hear from… pic.twitter.com/x1CcWVhn2O
— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) December 20, 2024
Jennings’ comments come hot on the heels of a bombshell Wall Street Journal report detailing how Biden’s staff hid is cognitive decline.
From The WSJ:
To adapt the White House around the needs of a diminished leader, they told visitors to keep meetings focused. Interactions with senior Democratic lawmakers and some cabinet members—including powerful secretaries such as Defense’s Lloyd Austin and Treasury’s Janet Yellen—were infrequent or grew less frequent. Some legislative leaders had a hard time getting the president’s ear at key moments, including ahead of the U.S.’s disastrous pullout from Afghanistan.
Senior advisers were often put into roles that some administration officials and lawmakers thought Biden should occupy, with people such as National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan, senior counselor Steve Ricchetti and National Economic Council head Lael Brainardand her predecessor frequently in the position of being go-betweens for the president.
Press aides who compiled packages of news clips for Biden were told by senior staff to exclude negative stories about the president. The president wasn’t talking to his own pollsters as surveys showed him trailing in the 2024 race.
More over at The WSJ:
The Joe Biden wasn’t physically or mentally able to do the job articles are underway. Here’s @WSJ deep dive that just dropped about how they tried to hide him from his own cabinet and lawmakers: https://t.co/clvOainZ0H
— Clay Travis (@ClayTravis) December 19, 2024