New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman acknowledged Thursday on CNN that President Joe Biden's low profile may be contributing to the chaos in Congress over the spending bill, saying he is concerned about government funding. He said that it is difficult to “debate'' the “bloat'' of Japan.
Although Biden has been conspicuously absent from the public eye in recent weeks, the president said Wednesday that I'm honored He remembers his first wife and baby daughter at a private monument in Delaware. On “Wolf Blitzer's Situation Room,” CNN host Wolf Blitzer pointed out to Haberman how “invisible” the president has been since the Republican congressman. opposed It is a stop-gap measure to keep the government funded until the spring after it was introduced late on Tuesday. (Related: Newt Gingrich offers 'obvious' solution to Congressional spending mess)
“Yeah, like David said, it's been like that for literally the last few weeks. I mean, there's one president at a time, but that usually makes the sitting president more visible. Yes, he has gone on foreign trips and certainly he has done certain things, but in general he is not really himself, Or they didn't feel like there was a finality to some of the challenges,” Haberman said.
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“Now, if you're Joe Biden and you understand that this mess was essentially caused by Donald Trump, you're not going to expose yourself to that problem and take responsibility for it. Can you make that argument? Yes, but then it just reduces everything to a political football instead of being about voters, which is also a bipartisan issue,” Haberman added. .
The NYT reporter went on to agree with his fellow CNN panelists that Republicans don't seem to want a government shutdown. But she said billionaire Elon Musk, who led the opposition to the original bill, doesn't seem to have a problem with the government shutdown because the real issue remains “huge” government spending. pointed out.
“But Elon Musk doesn't seem to care about that, because he believes there's so much bloat in the federal government that it's hard to objectively refute it. It's a matter of how we deal with it,” Haberman said.
After the original 1,574-page continuing resolution (CR) was amended, Congress failed to pass any new legislation. House Republicans could not agree on the decision Thursday night, moving the government closer to a shutdown. Despite House Majority Leader Steve Scalise caveat On Wednesday, it was announced that the new bill had died with no clear path forward, but some Republican lawmakers had hoped to push it through. however, Final tally Dozens of Republicans voted against the bill, with 174 in favor and 235 against, with one present.
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