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Mocked: Press Sec. Says People Should Pay Their Mortgages, Car Loans - Despite Biden’s Policy on Home, Student Loans
White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre is being mocked for saying people should make their loan payments, despite the Biden Administration’s policy of preventing foreclosures and forgiving student loan debt.
Jean-Pierre was making a comparison regarding the battle in Congress over the terms of raising the debt ceiling, during a press conference on Monday:
"If you buy a car, you are expected to pay the monthly payment.
“If you buy a home, you are expected to pay the mortgage every month.
“That is the expectation. That is the spending that you put forth or the spending that you may have done before, and now you’re paying every month.
“If you do not pay your car payment, if you do not pay your mortgage, then your credit is going to be bad, it’s going to hurt your credit.”
“It's that simple. It is very, very simple. It is the right thing to do," Jean-Pierre concluded.
Conservatives quickly took to Twitter to call out the hypocrisy.
“Wait, we're being lectured on paying your bills by the administration that tried to maintain the eviction moratorium and bail out college loans?” commentator and author Ben Shapiro tweeted, reacting to a Townhall.com video of the press secretary’s comments.
“What a novel idea. Now do student loans…” Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC) replied to the video.
“Now do students loans, @PressSec,” former Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos also wrote to Jean-Pierre.
Indeed, it took a ruling by the Supreme Court to prevent Pres. Biden from continuing to extend his moratorium on mortgage foreclosures, as The New York Times reported in November 2021:
“The Supreme Court on Thursday rejected the Biden administration’s latest moratorium on evictions, ending a political and legal dispute during a public health crisis in which the administration’s shifting positions had subjected it to criticism from adversaries and allies alike.”
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“The majority opinion, which was unsigned, said the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention had exceeded its authority.”
Now, Biden is trying to forgive student loans – but, that too may denied by the Supreme Court, which will rule on the president’s plan in June, an update posted Monday by Newsweek reports:
“The Congressional Budget Office estimates that the plan would cost $430 billion over a 30-year period. The Supreme Court, as part of the Biden v. Nebraska case, is expected to make a decision this June on whether the plan will legally stand.”
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“The U.S. Department of Education (DOE) announced Monday that over 615,000 individuals have had their student loans forgiven through the Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) program since October 2021, totaling approximately $42 billion.”
Survey: Most Americans Say Life Is ‘Worse’ Today Than 50 Years Ago
Most Americans feel as though life for “people like them” is worse today than it was five decades ago, a recent Pew Research survey found.
The survey showed Americans with a negative view on how life is for people now. They were asked, “In general, would you say life in America today is better, worse, or about the same as it was 50 years ago for people like you?”
Over half, 58 percent, said they believe life is “worse” for people like them than it was 50 years ago. That reflects a 15-point increase from the 43 percent who said the same in July 2021.
Only 23 percent said they believe life is “better,” and 19 percent said it is “about the same.”
Shoppers in sewing and fabric store at the Columbia Mall, Columbia, Maryland, 1973. (Pinto/United States Information Agency/PhotoQuest/Getty)
Republicans and Republican leaners are more likely to say life is worse today for people like them than it was back in 1973, as 72 percent said life is “worse.” Just 14 percent said it is better.
A plurality of Democrats also believe it is “worse” today — 43 percent. That reflects a 13-point uptick from the 30 percent who said the same in July 2021.
According to Pew Research:
While both older adults and younger adults are much more likely to say that life today is worse for people like them than to say life is better, there is a sizable age gap on this question. Adults 50 and older are 46 points more likely to say that life is worse today for people like them than they are to say that life is better (65% vs. 19%). Adults ages 18 to 49, by comparison, are 24 points more likely to say life today is worse (51% vs. 27%).
Coinciding with that is the fact that Americans tend to have a pessimistic view of the future. Sixty-six percent believe the U.S. economy will be “weaker” in 2050, and 71 percent believe the U.S. will be “less important” in the world 27 years down the road.
Further, 81 percent believe that the wealth gap will “grow,” and 77 percent believe the country will be even more politically divided by 2050. According to Pew Research, “Republicans and Republican-leaning independents are somewhat more likely than Democrats and Democratic leaners to have pessimistic views” on the country’s future, although a majority on both sides have negative views.
The latest results, taken March 27 to April 2, 2023, come well over two years in to Biden’s presidency, which has been hallmarked by historically high inflation and high gas prices, which continuously broke records last year.
Patrons enjoy Lake Meadows Shopping Center on the South Side of Chicago, Illinois, June, 1973. Image courtesy National Archives. (Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images).
The largest train shipment of new Chevrolet station wagons ever sent to Denver-1,000 of the 1973 models-has rolled in for distribution to 113 dealers in Chevy’s Denver Zone. Dealers say wagons, ideal for recreation and family use, account for 14.6 per cent of sales. (Denver Post via Getty)
The highest recorded average occurred last summer, as regular gasoline reached an average of $5.016 on June 14, 2022. Diesel broke an all-time record high days later, reaching $5.816 on June 19, 2022.
Additionally, a recent CBS News/YouGov poll found 97 percent of Americans viewing Biden’s economy as a top issue of concern.
Americans’ negative views on the state of the country and fond looks to the past also come as the radical left pushes social issues even further, attempting to normalize woke gender ideology and even push it on children — something the Biden administration wholly supports as well. This has prompted individual states to take action, passing legislation to protect children from these attempts to normalize gender dysphoria and transgenderism.
There has also been severe backlash for companies, such as Anheuser-Busch, for seemingly promoting this agenda as well.
Jon Tester Swore He Wouldn't Depend Upon Lobbyists as a Senator. Now Lobbyists Are Writing His Bills.
Emails show Montana Dem's office collaborated with industry lobbyists on March hemp farming bill
During his second Senate run, Jon Tester promised Montanans that, unlike his opponent, he wouldn't depend upon lobbyists to make decisions. Now internal emails show the Democrat is letting lobbyists write his legislation.
Hemp industry lobbyists both proposed and crafted a bill Tester introduced in March to change regulations in a way that benefits industrial hemp farmers, according to private emails obtained by Politico. While the practice isn't necessarily uncommon on Capitol Hill, Tester's willingness to let industry lobbyists shape their own regulations runs counter to the campaign rhetoric that sent him to the Senate in the first place. Tester in 2012 hammered his GOP opponent for relying on lobbyists to make legislative decisions, something the Democrat swore he would not do.
"We've got congressman [Denny] Rehberg, who … depends upon lobbyists for the decisions he makes on this country," Tester said during an October 2012 debate. "I depend upon Montanans. There's where the difference is."
Tester has used his everyman, outsider image to win three Senate elections in Montana, a state that backed former president Donald Trump by double digits in both 2016 and 2020. That image, however, is beginning to deteriorate as Tester seeks a fourth term. During his inaugural Senate bid, for example, Tester said it's "not right" for lawmakers to hire lobbyists as staff. The Democrat in April tapped a former lobbyist to lead his campaign. Tester was also Congress's top recipient of lobbyist cash in 2018, and his campaign has spent more than a million dollars at swanky Beltway restaurants since 2006, despite Tester's insistence that he prefers to eat at home with meat from his Montana farm.
Still, those moves haven't stopped Tester from portraying himself as a "tireless defender of rural America and the Montana way of life" who "stands up to special interests" and "holds all of Washington accountable." Those declarations fall flat under scrutiny, National Republican Senatorial Committee spokeswoman Maggie Abboud said.
"Jon Tester is a shameless pay-to-play politician who rakes in millions from Washington lobbyists while allowing them to write his bills almost word-for-word," Abboud said in a statement. "Montanans need an independent voice in Washington, not a swamp creature like Jon Tester."
Tester, whose campaign did not return a request for comment, downplayed the hemp industry's role in crafting his March bill. A staff member told Politico that Tester simply took "feedback" from "Montana small business owners." But emails show a registered lobbyist for a top U.S. hemp company contacted Tester's office in February with a "draft bill" that the Democrat later introduced. A Montana Department of Agriculture attorney who also received the draft bill said the hemp industry "definitely wrote some of the language." And an aide to Indiana Republican senator Mike Braun, who cosponsored the legislation with Tester, said Braun was uncomfortable with the lobbyist work on the bill.
"Our chief of staff called the chair of one of these advocacy groups to tell them we were negotiating directly with the other office and told them frankly we did not want them involved in our process," the aide told Politico.
Tester in February launched his bid for a fourth Senate term, saying Montanans "need a fighter holding Washington accountable." His campaign has raised more than $5 million in 2023—top contributors include United Parcel Service and former Obama White House "fixer" Jim Messina. Tester has not yet attracted a top-tier GOP opponent, but a number of Montana Republicans are reportedly weighing Senate bids, including state attorney general Austin Knudsen and Reps. Ryan Zinke and Matt Rosendale.
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