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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

By Melanie Arter | October 11, 2021 | 10:58am EDT

 

 

 

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

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CHARLIE SPIERING

11 Oct 20212,492

2:41

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.

Report: Columbus Day Sales Disappearing amid Push for Indigenous Peoples Day, Supply Chain Clogs

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PENNY STARR

11 Oct 202117

2:56

Consumers may not find bargains on Columbus Day on Monday as this supply chain in the United States remains clogged and activists — including President Joe Biden — push Indigenous People Day to be celebrated on this day.

Biden issued a proclamation on the duplicate holiday:

On Indigenous Peoples’ Day, our Nation celebrates the invaluable contributions and resilience of Indigenous peoples, recognizes their inherent sovereignty, and commits to honoring the Federal Government’s trust and treaty obligations to Tribal Nations.

Biden also issued a Columbus Day proclaim critical of European explorers. After praising Italian Americans, Biden proclaimed:

Today, we also acknowledge the painful history of wrongs and atrocities that many European explorers inflicted on Tribal Nations and Indigenous communities.  It is a measure of our greatness as a Nation that we do not seek to bury these shameful episodes of our past — that we face them honestly, we bring them to the light, and we do all we can to address them.

U.S. President Joe Biden gestures as he delivers remarks on his administration’s COVID-19 response and vaccination program from the State Dining Room of the White House on September 24, 2021 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

“If you make a big deal about this weekend and say you’re going to have a lot of great products, you’re going to basically set yourself up for a stockout and disappoint a bunch of people,” Marc Rousset, a partner in the retail and consumer goods practice at Oliver Wyman, said in an Axios report.

“I wouldn’t be surprised to see Memorial Day [sales] go next,” Rousset said. “That’s kind of bold — I don’t know that I would bet the farm on that — but I think people, you know, see the benefits of simplifying.”

A sale sign is displayed near the entrance of a Hallmark store Tuesday, Jan. 12, 2021, in Orlando, Fla.(AP Photo/John Raoux)

“I think this one is an easy one that they can just say, ‘Hey, I’m just going to rename the sale or cancel the sale and not worry about it,'” Katie Thomas, leader of the Kearney Consumer Institute, told Axios.

”Some of those sales are just a little bit outdated or relics of the past,” Thomas said. “Some of the traditional department store sales, like a white sale, just aren’t quite as relevant anymore.”

Fox News reported on the convergence of the culture wars and an out of control supply chain because the Biden administration has failed to address the growing crisis as ships remained stalled at U.S. ports:

The Columbus Day sale is easily among the first to go amid the ongoing culture wars associated with the Italian explorer, and “Indigenous Peoples’ Day sale” doesn’t quite have the same ring. While some retailers are still having sales this weekend, they’re often rebranded as “fall” sales or something less controversial.

“The news comes amid global supply chain disruptions that have dramatically slowed down the manufacturing, processing and transportation of goods across the globe and caused prices to skyrocket,” Fox News concluded.

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Report: 80,000 Shipping Containers Stuck at Savannah Port

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WENDELL HUSEBØ

11 Oct 202185

2:56

Eighty thousand shipping containers are stuck at the Port of Savannah – a full 50 percent more than normal, the New York Times reported Sunday.

Steal containers are just awaiting either trucks or carry them to warehouses or ships to take them to another port, the Times reported. But like Savannah, other ports are also full. As a result, “some 700 containers have been left at the port, on the banks of the Savannah River, by their owners for a month or more.”

Yet Cushman & Wakefield, a real estate company, told the Financial Times demand for warehouse space is at an all-time high with scarce availability. Prices to store shipping containers also stand at an all-time high, according to Logistics Managers’ Index.

Executive Director of the Georgia Ports Authority, Griff Lunch, told the New York publication the Port of Savannah has never been this full before. “We’ve never had the yard as full as this,” he said, pointing to the containers that have been sitting in port because companies have nowhere to go with them.

“They’re not coming to get their freight,” said Lynch. “The stress level has never been higher.”

Due to the jam, Lynch said he has forced cargo ships to wait to dock for nine days. He said the backlog of ships was more than 20 waiting in line and anchored 17 miles off the coast. “The supply chain is overwhelmed and inundated,” Lynch said. “It’s not sustainable at this point. Everything is out of whack.”

Lynch also said if he had more berths to unload the ships, it would not help the congestion because he has nowhere to place the containers. “If there’s no space out here,” he said, looking at the full port, “it doesn’t matter if I have 50 berths.”

“Six or seven weeks later, the ships come in all at once,” Lynch explained about the bottleneck. “That doesn’t help.” According to Sea-Intelligence, “nearly 13 percent of the world’s cargo shipping capacity tied up by delays,” the Times reports.

Meanwhile, in August, inflation increased 5.3 percent compared to 2020. The inflation increase is primarily due to supply-chain issues, which means items are not easily passing through ports along their way to consumers. The New York Post reported October 7 there were “70 cargo ships waiting to dock at the Port of Los Angeles.”

Another challenge for the ports have been a truck driver shortage. Without drivers, many of the items American families depend on remain undelivered to points of purchase.

The situation has been also been compounded by Democrat-controlled states paying people not to work through large unemployment checks. These checks are in addition to federal government unemployment checks, which results in reducing the supply of labor.

Follow Wendell Husebø on Twitter @WendellHusebø

Report: 80,000 Shipping Containers Stuck at Savannah Port

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Stephen Morton/Getty

WENDELL HUSEBØ

11 Oct 202185

2:56

Eighty thousand shipping containers are stuck at the Port of Savannah – a full 50 percent more than normal, the New York Times reported Sunday.

Steal containers are just awaiting either trucks or carry them to warehouses or ships to take them to another port, the Times reported. But like Savannah, other ports are also full. As a result, “some 700 containers have been left at the port, on the banks of the Savannah River, by their owners for a month or more.”

Yet Cushman & Wakefield, a real estate company, told the Financial Times demand for warehouse space is at an all-time high with scarce availability. Prices to store shipping containers also stand at an all-time high, according to Logistics Managers’ Index.

Executive Director of the Georgia Ports Authority, Griff Lunch, told the New York publication the Port of Savannah has never been this full before. “We’ve never had the yard as full as this,” he said, pointing to the containers that have been sitting in port because companies have nowhere to go with them.

“They’re not coming to get their freight,” said Lynch. “The stress level has never been higher.”

Due to the jam, Lynch said he has forced cargo ships to wait to dock for nine days. He said the backlog of ships was more than 20 waiting in line and anchored 17 miles off the coast. “The supply chain is overwhelmed and inundated,” Lynch said. “It’s not sustainable at this point. Everything is out of whack.”

Lynch also said if he had more berths to unload the ships, it would not help the congestion because he has nowhere to place the containers. “If there’s no space out here,” he said, looking at the full port, “it doesn’t matter if I have 50 berths.”

“Six or seven weeks later, the ships come in all at once,” Lynch explained about the bottleneck. “That doesn’t help.” According to Sea-Intelligence, “nearly 13 percent of the world’s cargo shipping capacity tied up by delays,” the Times reports.

Meanwhile, in August, inflation increased 5.3 percent compared to 2020. The inflation increase is primarily due to supply-chain issues, which means items are not easily passing through ports along their way to consumers. The New York Post reported October 7 there were “70 cargo ships waiting to dock at the Port of Los Angeles.”

Another challenge for the ports have been a truck driver shortage. Without drivers, many of the items American families depend on remain undelivered to points of purchase.

The situation has been also been compounded by Democrat-controlled states paying people not to work through large unemployment checks. These checks are in addition to federal government unemployment checks, which results in reducing the supply of labor.

Follow Wendell Husebø on Twitter @WendellHusebø

Report: 80,000 Shipping Containers Stuck at Savannah Port

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Stephen Morton/Getty

WENDELL HUSEBØ

11 Oct 202185

2:56

Eighty thousand shipping containers are stuck at the Port of Savannah – a full 50 percent more than normal, the New York Times reported Sunday.

Steal containers are just awaiting either trucks or carry them to warehouses or ships to take them to another port, the Times reported. But like Savannah, other ports are also full. As a result, “some 700 containers have been left at the port, on the banks of the Savannah River, by their owners for a month or more.”

Yet Cushman & Wakefield, a real estate company, told the Financial Times demand for warehouse space is at an all-time high with scarce availability. Prices to store shipping containers also stand at an all-time high, according to Logistics Managers’ Index.

Executive Director of the Georgia Ports Authority, Griff Lunch, told the New York publication the Port of Savannah has never been this full before. “We’ve never had the yard as full as this,” he said, pointing to the containers that have been sitting in port because companies have nowhere to go with them.

“They’re not coming to get their freight,” said Lynch. “The stress level has never been higher.”

Due to the jam, Lynch said he has forced cargo ships to wait to dock for nine days. He said the backlog of ships was more than 20 waiting in line and anchored 17 miles off the coast. “The supply chain is overwhelmed and inundated,” Lynch said. “It’s not sustainable at this point. Everything is out of whack.”

Lynch also said if he had more berths to unload the ships, it would not help the congestion because he has nowhere to place the containers. “If there’s no space out here,” he said, looking at the full port, “it doesn’t matter if I have 50 berths.”

“Six or seven weeks later, the ships come in all at once,” Lynch explained about the bottleneck. “That doesn’t help.” According to Sea-Intelligence, “nearly 13 percent of the world’s cargo shipping capacity tied up by delays,” the Times reports.

Meanwhile, in August, inflation increased 5.3 percent compared to 2020. The inflation increase is primarily due to supply-chain issues, which means items are not easily passing through ports along their way to consumers. The New York Post reported October 7 there were “70 cargo ships waiting to dock at the Port of Los Angeles.”

Another challenge for the ports have been a truck driver shortage. Without drivers, many of the items American families depend on remain undelivered to points of purchase.

The situation has been also been compounded by Democrat-controlled states paying people not to work through large unemployment checks. These checks are in addition to federal government unemployment checks, which results in reducing the supply of labor.

Follow Wendell Husebø on Twitter @WendellHusebø

Report: 80,000 Shipping Containers Stuck at Savannah Port

17

Stephen Morton/Getty

WENDELL HUSEBØ

11 Oct 202185

2:56

Eighty thousand shipping containers are stuck at the Port of Savannah – a full 50 percent more than normal, the New York Times reported Sunday.

Steal containers are just awaiting either trucks or carry them to warehouses or ships to take them to another port, the Times reported. But like Savannah, other ports are also full. As a result, “some 700 containers have been left at the port, on the banks of the Savannah River, by their owners for a month or more.”

Yet Cushman & Wakefield, a real estate company, told the Financial Times demand for warehouse space is at an all-time high with scarce availability. Prices to store shipping containers also stand at an all-time high, according to Logistics Managers’ Index.

Executive Director of the Georgia Ports Authority, Griff Lunch, told the New York publication the Port of Savannah has never been this full before. “We’ve never had the yard as full as this,” he said, pointing to the containers that have been sitting in port because companies have nowhere to go with them.

“They’re not coming to get their freight,” said Lynch. “The stress level has never been higher.”

Due to the jam, Lynch said he has forced cargo ships to wait to dock for nine days. He said the backlog of ships was more than 20 waiting in line and anchored 17 miles off the coast. “The supply chain is overwhelmed and inundated,” Lynch said. “It’s not sustainable at this point. Everything is out of whack.”

Lynch also said if he had more berths to unload the ships, it would not help the congestion because he has nowhere to place the containers. “If there’s no space out here,” he said, looking at the full port, “it doesn’t matter if I have 50 berths.”

“Six or seven weeks later, the ships come in all at once,” Lynch explained about the bottleneck. “That doesn’t help.” According to Sea-Intelligence, “nearly 13 percent of the world’s cargo shipping capacity tied up by delays,” the Times reports.

Meanwhile, in August, inflation increased 5.3 percent compared to 2020. The inflation increase is primarily due to supply-chain issues, which means items are not easily passing through ports along their way to consumers. The New York Post reported October 7 there were “70 cargo ships waiting to dock at the Port of Los Angeles.”

Another challenge for the ports have been a truck driver shortage. Without drivers, many of the items American families depend on remain undelivered to points of purchase.

The situation has been also been compounded by Democrat-controlled states paying