America Faces No Greater Threat Than Joe Biden and the Democrat Party. Their Assault to Our Borders Is As Great As Their Assault to Free Speech and Free Elections
Monday, October 11, 2021
JOE BIDEN ON BIDENOMICS - FOLKS, I CANT BE WORRIED ABOUT THE SHIPPING CRISIS! - I'VE GOT MY PARTY BASE OF ILLEGALS TO SCATTER ALL OVER AMERICA AND GET REGISTERED TO VOTE DEM FOR MORE!
Joe Biden Unable to Meet ‘Major Challenges’ on Clogged Ports and Snarled Supply Chains
Rep. Steve Scalise: Biden’s Policies Are Responsible for Disappointing Jobs Numbers
Rep. Steve Scalise (R-La.) (Photo by NICHOLAS KAMM/AFP via Getty Images)
(CNSNews.com) - Rep. Steve Scalise (R-La.) told “Fox News Sunday” that President Joe Biden’s policies are to blame for last month’s disappointing job numbers.
Employers added 194,000 jobs in September - well below the 500,000 that economists expected. Biden blamed the Delta variant.
When asked why he thinks last month’s jobs report was so disappointing, Scalise said, ”Well, really, if you look at all the policies under President Biden -- I mean, the inflation that we're seeing, but paying people not to work is still a major drag on the economy.
“Some of the other welfare programs that they set up earlier this year making it easier for people to stay at home rather than go get a job when every employer you talked is looking for workers, and then you top on top of that the regulations that they keep adding, agency after agency going after small businesses, making it harder to keep the supply chain moving,” he said.
“All those things are adding up and they're all self-imposed by President Biden who walked in with three vaccines and an economy primed to take off, and yet it's been disappointment after disappointment every month because of this failed Biden agenda,” the congressman said.
Host Chris Wallace pointed out that the boost in unemployment benefits from the federal government ended on Labor Day, “but it didn’t seem to make a difference when it ended.”
“But that's not the only thing that they added. They added a number of other welfare programs, and they got rid of the welfare to work requirements. You go back to Bill Clinton. It was a very successful tool to get people back into the workforce. Joe Biden helped undermine a lot of those successful efforts, too. So, it wasn't just one thing,” Scalise said.
“It was many things, and they're all lining up and catching up with this economy, and it's -- again, he could reverse it right now, but he doesn't want to. They keep doubling down on this far left socialist agenda,” he said.
Joe Biden Unable to Meet ‘Major Challenges’ on Clogged Ports and Snarled Supply Chains
President Joe Biden is still struggling to meet the immediate challenge of clogged sea ports, as American consumers face major shortages ahead of the Christmas holiday season.
The president has been aware of the problems for months, promising in August to monitor the situation and offer solutions.
“My administration is bringing together the port operators, shipping lines, the labor unions, trucking companies, railroads, and others to speed up the port’s operations,” Biden said on August 11.
He reassured Americans “these bottlenecks and price spikes will reduce as our economy continues to heal” and promised to monitor the situation.
Biden appointed John D. Porcari to as a “Port Envoy” for the administration on August 21, joining Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg to try and solve the shipping problems.
Container ships are anchored by Long Beach and Los Angeles as they wait to offload in clogged ports on September 20, 2021 near Los Angeles, California. (Mario Tama/Getty Images)
But two months later, port delays continue.
There are 146 cargo ships off the California coast waiting to get unloaded, according to reports over the weekend.
During an interview with MSNBC’s Morning Joe on Thursday, Buttigieg struggled to offer any reassurance that the Biden administration was making progress as the problem continued to worsen.
“Obviously it’s an incredibly complicated situation,” Buttigieg admitted, posing that the government was handling the problem by holding video conference “roundtables” of private companies, port operators, and labor unions to discuss the problems.
He argued his department was making short term gains, but warned Americans that it was a long term problem.
“Some of these things have been years and years in the making,” he said.
Buttigieg cited concerns about the number of available truck drivers, but said he was working with the Department of Labor to create more apprenticeships.
A cargo ship filled with containers waits offshore for entry to the Port of Los Angeles on October 6, 2021 in Los Angeles, California as supply chain disruptions continue to affect the US economy. (FREDERIC J. BROWN/AFP via Getty Images)
“We’re going to continue to see a lot of challenges, he admitted. “Not just going into the next year or two, but going into the long term.”
White House press secretary Jen Psaki also struggled to demonstrate progress on the issue during the daily press briefing on Friday.
“The President recognizes that there are several, several layers of the challenge here that contribute to the bottleneck,” she said.
Psaki argued that Biden’s appointment of a port “envoy” was proof the administration was handling the crisis.
“The fact that he designated and — and appointed someone at that level with a range of vast experience shows that this is a part of the issue we’re absolutely focused on,” she said.
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