The incompetence and venality of the Biden administration is becoming more evident. This from the Politico daily brief.
SIREN, just posted: “Dems fear Biden’s domestic agenda could implode,” by Burgess Everett and Heather Caygle, POLITICO’s co-congressional bureau chiefs: “Internal Democratic discord has wounded President
JOE BIDEN’s massive social spending plan, raising the prospect that the package could stall out, shrink dramatically — or even fail altogether.”
BIDEN’S OTHER MISSION — Today, Biden interrupts his mission to rescue his agenda in Congress with a mission to rescue his agenda with world leaders.
He’ll speak at 10 a.m. before the U.N. General Assembly to an audience far more skeptical about his insistence that “America is back” than they were in the afterglow of
DONALD TRUMP’s loss, which was (mostly) celebrated around the world.
AFGHANISTAN FALLOUT: The hangover for European allies perturbed by America’s messy pullout from Afghanistan still lingers.
A new report from Amnesty International details what everyone expected: “The Taliban are steadily dismantling the human rights gains of the last twenty years.” One of America’s final acts of the war was a drone strike killing 10 civilians (mostly children) that the White House on Monday said Biden
wanted investigated and that will be used as a cudgel by adversaries to attack America this week at the U.N.
CLIMATE SKEPTICISM: On climate policy, a top priority at the UNGA this week,
Biden’s aggressive plan to reduce emissions by 50% by 2030has been
outsourced to a coal-state senator with no interest in the White House’s preferred approach to reaching that goal. On Monday, before his meeting with Biden, U.N. Secretary-General
ANTÓNIO GUTERRES said there was “a high risk of failure” at the November climate summit in Scotland.
COVID OUTRAGE: Biden’s Covid-19 policies have fared little better. Europeans have seethed for 18 months over a Trump-Biden ban on travel to the United States. Biden will be showing up with good news:
The administration announced Monday that fully vaccinated foreigners are now welcome into the U.S. The World Health Organization has criticized America’s approach to vaccine sharing and the Biden administration’s push for booster shots when much of the world hasn’t had a single dose yet.
OVERCOMING THE ULTIMATE INSULT: When France recalled its ambassador last weekend, the statement heard ’round the world from the French foreign minister is one that seemed unthinkable from an ally when Biden was inaugurated but was akin to remarks already being whispered in D.C. diplomatic circles:
“This brutal, unilateral and unpredictable decision reminds me a lot of what Mr. Trump used to do.”Click to expand...