President Joe Biden on Tuesday evening will ship his second official State of the Union deal with since being sworn into workplace Jan. 20, 2021.
Rep. Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y., the No. 3 Home Republican, says the president doesn’t have something to brag about within the speech to a joint session of Congress on the midpoint of his four-year time period.
“I believe the president has precipitated important crises on this nation, whether or not you take a look at the border disaster, the financial disaster, the inflation disaster, or the constitutional disaster,” Stefanik, chairwoman of the Home Republican Convention, says.
“What Home Republicans are centered on is our dedication to America, our legislative agenda that we have now already hit the bottom working to go on behalf of the American folks, standing up for an economic system that’s robust, a nation that’s protected, a future that’s constructed upon freedom, and a authorities that’s accountable,” Stefanik says. “So, I hope to listen to loads from the president, however I believe he’s going to double down on the far-Left, failed insurance policies which were actually hurting hardworking American households.”
Stefanik joins this episode of “The Day by day Sign Podcast” to debate how she would grade Biden’s first two years in workplace, what to anticipate from congressional Republicans and GOP management in oversight of the Biden administration, and what she views as the most important risk from the Chinese language Communist Get together.
Rep. Harriet Hageman, R-Wyo., additionally joins the podcast to debate what she thinks Biden has to brag about throughout his State of the Union deal with, Biden’s self-inflicted immigration disaster, and whether or not Home Republicans will impeach Homeland Safety Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas over the state of affairs on the southern border.
Hearken to the podcast under or learn the evenly edited transcript:
Samantha Aschieris: Thanks a lot for becoming a member of us at present. Now, tomorrow is President [Joe] Biden’s State of the Union deal with. Does the president have something to brag about tomorrow evening?
Rep. Elise Stefanik: I believe the president has precipitated important disaster on this nation, whether or not you take a look at the border disaster, the financial disaster, the inflation disaster, or the constitutional disaster. What Home Republicans are centered on is our dedication to America, our legislative agenda that we have now already hit the bottom working to go on behalf of the American folks, standing up for an economic system that’s robust, a nation that’s protected, a future that’s constructed upon freedom, and a authorities that’s accountable.
So I hope to listen to loads from the president, however I believe he’s going to double down on the far-Left failed insurance policies which were actually hurting hardworking American households.
Aschieris: How would you grade President Biden’s first two years in workplace?
Stefanik: I’d grade him with an F and he deserves that F. On each metric he has failed. Persons are worse off than they had been below President [Donald] Trump, the place folks had been doing very effectively. Households had been doing very effectively economically, when it comes to our security; legislation enforcement was supported; our southern border was safe. We’ve got seen that unravel so shortly.
And I wish to spotlight one subject that’s a selected disaster, is that this unsustainable debt. Over $31 trillion is our present debt. That’s saddling future generations with an unsustainable invoice to pay. And but, I imagine tomorrow President Biden’s going to double down on his refusal to barter and saying we want a clear debt ceiling.
That’s a non-starter for the American folks, that’s a non-starter for Home Republicans, which is why we’re so supportive of the truth that Speaker [Kevin] McCarthy had that assembly with President Biden to demand that we’re going to have negotiations to face up for the American folks and produce our finances again towards stability.
Aschieris: Now, you simply introduced up the nationwide debt. What different issues would you take into account to be President Biden’s biggest failure over the past two years?
Stefanik: The border, the weaponization of federal businesses to go towards his political opponents—whether or not it’s concentrating on dad and mom standing up in school board conferences, having his Division of Justice designate them as home terrorists, or whether or not it’s the FBI concentrating on his prime political opponent, Donald Trump, with the raid at Mar-a-Lago.
And it’s unacceptable that the mainstream media has handled Joe Biden’s mishandling of labeled paperwork and have tried to brush it below the rug. The American folks should know the reality, the entire fact, about his very regarding and unlawful storage of labeled paperwork.
Aschieris: And let’s discuss just a little bit extra about labeled paperwork and the Oversight Committee. And what can we count on from Republicans and from Republican management when it comes to oversight?
Stefanik: Oversight is a large a part of our dedication to America, and it’s one thing that Democrats refuse to do. It’s our constitutional responsibility, representing the American folks, to have oversight over these businesses as a result of these businesses work for the American folks, not the opposite means round.
And too typically, these businesses have been concentrating on the American folks—hardworking, law-abiding residents. And I exploit dad and mom as most likely some of the egregious examples, the truth that the Division of Justice was concentrating on dad and mom, dad and mom who care deeply about their baby’s security and the standard of schooling they had been getting within the classroom.
In order that’s going to be one a part of our oversight agenda. However as a member of Home management, all of our committees can be conducting oversight. I sit on the Home Armed Providers Committee. We’re going to go after the misuse of federal {dollars} in terms of the Division of Protection with their woke insurance policies, implementing vital race principle as a part of their teachings inside the DOD. That’s unacceptable and we are going to go after that. That’s a part of oversight.
Aschieris: Now, I wish to discuss just a little bit about China and what you see as the most important risk from the Chinese language Communist Get together.
Stefanik: I imagine that our biggest Twenty first-century risk is the Chinese language Communist Get together. And I’ve been a part of the China Activity Power, which Republicans put collectively within the final Congress, placing forth what options are.
We have to ensure that we’re defending our mental property, we have to ensure that we’re defending our agricultural land, our AG companies. I’ve launched laws to do this. And we have to ensure that we’re making investments in our nation’s army, not in these woke insurance policies, however ensuring that we have now the strongest, most succesful, most deadly army on this planet as a result of Communist China is doubling down on these investments. It’s one of many the reason why Home Republicans led the creation of the China choose committee, which we truly earned over a 100 Democrats’ vote for. So this shouldn’t be a partisan subject.
Sadly, Joe Biden has proven weak spot in terms of the Communist Chinese language, notably in his mishandling of the balloon this previous weekend.
Aschieris: Yeah, I wish to discuss just a little bit extra in regards to the balloon and extra about President Biden’s dealing with of it. Do you suppose that, over the past two years, President Biden has successfully countered the specter of the Chinese language Communist Get together, and what extra do you hope to see from him?
Stefanik: Properly, we have to see energy, and we’re not seeing this with our present commander in chief. I’ll let you know, below President Trump, our adversaries feared us and our allies knew that they may depend on us, and it’s the precise reverse below President Joe Biden.
And China was watching that botched withdrawal from Afghanistan, he was watching that catastrophic commander-in-chief lack of management, and [Chinese President Xi Jinping] and the Communist Chinese language are persevering with to flex their muscle, whether or not it was the balloon or whether or not it’s their continued theft of mental property and our know-how in america.
So it is a very critical risk. Home Republicans are main on this subject, and we intend to make it an enormous a part of our nationwide safety priorities and in addition financial safety priorities to ensure that we proceed to be the worldwide chief economically and from a nationwide safety perspective.
Aschieris: I simply have one closing query for you. The Day by day Sign reported this morning that the Biden administration and Division of Schooling, it doesn’t seem to be they’re imposing Part 117 of the Increased Schooling Act of 1965, which requires schools and universities to report contracts with or overseas funding from overseas entities of $250,000 or extra. Out of your perspective, and as a pacesetter of the Republican Get together, what can we count on from you shifting ahead to carry these schools and universities accountable?
Stefanik: It’s a nice query, and I additionally serve on the Home Schooling Workforce Committee. So I’ve truly launched laws to tamp down on any overseas funding from adversaries into our increased schooling system.
We noticed this, sadly, with Confucius Institutes funded by the Communist Chinese language Get together, and we wanted to place a cease to it as a result of it’s brainwashing our youngsters and it’s permitting infiltration. In order that can be an oversight agenda for us on the Home Schooling Committee and definitely a precedence for the China choose committee as effectively.
However I’ve been very captivated with this subject, and we want to ensure we’re doing every thing we will to guard our future leaders in our schooling system.
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