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Senator Ted Cruz calls Biden out for hypocrisy on the media blackout of border
'This is outrageous'
Senator Ted Cruz is putting the pressure on President Biden to be more open with the media about the current immigrant problem at the U.S.-Mexico border.
The White House faces critique from news reporters for not allowing media access to Customs and Border Protection facilities that are holding thousands of unattended migrant children. Just last week, when Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas led a bipartisan delegation of lawmakers to the U.S. border, reporters were banned from reporting their tour due to "privacy and COVID-19 restrictions."
At least, if not more than 15,000 migrant kids have been held by the federal government, but the overcrowding and conditions that these children were being held in were not being reported until Monday when Axios received exclusive photos of children being kept in cage-like "pods."
In a letter sent to the president, Senator Cruz said it was "outrageous and hypocritical" of Biden to ban news reporters from accessing the situation at the border.
"As part of our oversight duties as Senators, I and 14 of my colleagues will travel to the border this week to talk to the brave men and women on the ground who are working every today to stop this crisis and secure our border," Cruz wrote.
"But it is not enough for members of the Senate to see what is happening — the American people must see. That is why I requested that members of the media be allowed to join us. But your administration clearly and emphatically refused to offer press access. This is outrageous and hypocritical."
Cruz has scolded the president's administration for claiming "truth and transparency" and now going back on that promise.
Cruz wrote:
At the beginning of your administration, Press Secretary Jen Psaki stressed the importance of "truth and transparency" and a "deep respect for the role of a free and independent press." At the beginning of the month, Secretary Mayorkas stated that he would adhere to principles of "openness and transparency." But now, when your administration faces a crisis of your own making, you are refusing to allow the very transparency you promised and that you demanded from prior administrations.
Denying the press the ability to observe, film, and report on the conditions at the border is not openness or transparency-it is hiding the truth from the American people. The press and the American people deserve more than denials and excuses from a podium. They deserve to see and understand the crisis for themselves with the help of reporters who are free and independent from your administration.
On Friday, Sens. Cruz and John Cornyn (R-Texas) will lead a delegation of 14 lawmakers to tour the Rio Grande Valley. Cruz said it's "unacceptable" that the Biden administration will not permit reporters to join them.
"I call on you to reverse this decision immediately and commit to allowing free and fair reporting on the crisis at the border," Cruz declared.
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Survey shows majority of Americans reject Build Back Better: More think Biden's infrastructure spending bill will hurt them more than help them
In a total inversion of what Democrats had expected, Americans have dismissed the expensive framework bill with gigantic social projects incorporated into it. Another survey shows that more Americans repel the Democrats' $1.75 trillion spending proposition than welcome it.
As indicated by another ABC News/Ipsos survey delivered on Sunday, public help for President Joe Biden's bills to expand spending on framework and social projects has blurred.
The overview tracked down that 32% of Americans feel that the spending bills would hurt individuals like them if they became law, while 25% said they accept the bills would help them. Close to 66% (64%) of Republicans figure the bills would hurt individuals like them, and 29% of free thinkers feel something very similar. In spite of being the significant system of Biden's administration, less than half of Democrats (47%) accept the two bills would help them.
A CBS News survey from recently tracked down that 36% of respondents said it would help them and their family versus 33% who said it would hurt their friends and family. The overview additionally said that 79% of review members said that expansion was brought about by supply and assembling issues after the pandemic and 66% said it was brought about by U.S. government strategy. "And when asked about potential causes of inflation right now, two-thirds cited U.S. government policy," the outlet stated.
The poll showed that just 37% of Americans thought that Biden and the Democrats were centered around issues they care very much about.
This sad survey for Biden and the Democrats shows up on that very days as a NBC News review that shows the president at unsurpassed lows. The NBC News surveys found that Biden was submerged interestingly of his administration – 42% endorsement rating versus 54% who object.
The survey likewise showed that 71% said the nation is "off on the wrong track" – including 48% of Democrats.
"When you see a wrong track of 71%, it is a flashing red light," Republican pollster Bill McInturff of Public Opinion Strategies said. "These folks are telling us that this is not going well."
That is a huge increment from one more survey in September that said 61% of Americans felt like the country has "pretty seriously gotten off on the wrong track."
President Biden says the Pope advised him to continue to take communion and considered him a 'good Catholic'
President Joe Biden said that Pope Francis let him know he was a "good Catholic" and said he could keep on taking communion regardless of the complaints of numerous U.S. bishops.
Biden made the case after a private gathering with the pontiff at the Vatican on Friday.
"We just talked about the fact he was happy that I was a good Catholic and I should keep receiving Communion," Biden said about the gathering.
He added that the topic of abortion didn't come up in the gathering.
An assertion from the White House showed that Biden said thanks to the Pope for pushing for an "equitable global economic recovery" and for battling global warming.
"Biden thanked His Holiness for his advocacy for the world's poor and those suffering from hunger, conflict, and persecution," the assertion added.
The Vatican didn't affirm Biden's case in their official statement about their gathering.
Biden's claim will probably disappoint and outrage many conservative Catholics in the U.S. who have called for communion to be declined to politicians who stand behind abortion, which is in opposition to Catholic church teaching.
The issue will be taken up by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops following upon a vote during their June plenary meeting to address it generally. After Biden met with the Pope, they delivered an assertion saying that they would not single out a particular legislator if they vote to say something about the issue.
The Pope had recently reacted to the contention by approaching the diocesans to try not to politicize the congregation's most elevated holy observance, which would transform it into a "source of discord rather than unity within the episcopate and the larger church in the United States."
Here's additional info on the gathering between the Pope and Biden:
Gold Star father tears into Biden over supposed arrangement to give large installments to illegal migrant families
Gold Star father David Horton slammed President Joe Biden in a meeting Sunday, scrutinizing the Biden organization's accounted for plan to convey huge financial installments to some migrant families.
The Wall Street Journal announced last week about the arrangement to pay migrant families affected by previous President Donald Trump's zero-tolerance illegal immigration policies.
The Biden administration is in talks to offer immigrant families that were separated during the Trump administration around $450,000 a person in compensation, according to people familiar with the matter, as several agencies work to resolve lawsuits filed on behalf of parents and children who say the government subjected them to lasting psychological trauma.
The U.S. Departments of Justice, Homeland Security, and Health and Human Services are considering payments that could amount to close to $1 million a family, though the final numbers could shift, the people familiar with the matter said. Most of the families that crossed the border illegally from Mexico to seek asylum in the U.S. included one parent and one child, the people said. Many families would likely get smaller payouts, depending on their circumstances, the people said.
Among the issues pundits have raised with the arrangement, the greatest is that non-citizens remain to get additional cash from the U.S. government than gold star families if the arrangement becomes reality.
As of now, the U.S. government pays the group of fallen assistance individuals $100,000 in "death gratuity"; the installments are tax excluded. The families of service members additionally have the choice to gather a limit of $400,000 in extra security, however administration individuals need to pay into the protection intend to accept its advantages.
Speaking on "Fox and Friends," Horton — whose son, Army Spc. Christopher Horton, was killed in Afghanistan in 2011 — proclaimed the Biden administration's arrangement "an insult" and clarified it disrespects military families.
"I think it's another — yet another insult … against our military families and Gold Star families and veterans' families," Horton said. "It's just another another slap in the face. It's completely disrespectful."
"To compare an illegal person who has broken our country's border laws … they've broken the law coming in on our borders and to compare that with someone, a patriot like my son, who gave his all on the battlefield of Afghanistan, and to just say, 'Oh well, the value is more for someone who has broken our laws' … and now to say, 'Oh, we owe you money — and it's more money than we would pay a patriot — I am outraged," Horton said.
"You just wonder, where is the outcry against some of these policies that are just there? Unbelievable to me," Horton added.
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