Republicans accused Biden of inciting cultural wars in country
2023.02.08 13:29
Republicans accused Biden of inciting cultural wars in country
By Kristina Sobol
Budrigannews.com – In their State of the Union address on Tuesday, Republicans rejected Democratic President Joe Biden’s call for bipartisanship and instead accused him of igniting culture wars in a nation they described as deeply divided.
Arkansas Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders delivered a partisan broadside during the official party rebuttal to Biden’s speech, a day after Republican U.S. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy urged Biden to collaborate on a debt and spending compromise.
“Washington taxes you and burns your hard-earned money in the America of the radical left. “But you get crushed by high gas prices, empty grocery shelves, and our children are taught to hate one another based on their race,” Sanders, who served as press secretary for the White House under the administration of former President Donald Trump, stated.
She stated:
“The Biden administration appears to be more interested in woke fantasies than the hard reality that Americans face every day.”
Biden discussed assault weapons, abortion, and transgender youth in his first State of the Union address to a Congress that includes a House of Representatives that is controlled by Republicans. However, those issues were only a small portion of the overall economic speech.
Biden did make a promise to work with Republicans, as he did during the previous Congress, when Democrats controlled both chambers.
Republicans in Congress were among the president’s audience, and they questioned Trump’s victory in the 2020 election and have begun investigating his family and administration.
“To my Republican friends, if we could work together in the last Congress, there is no reason we can’t work together and find consensus on important things in this Congress as well,” the president said. During the speech, Biden and McCarthy, who was the speaker and sat behind the president, continued to disagree about how to approach the $31.4 trillion debt ceiling, which needs to be addressed in the coming months to prevent a first-ever default.
Biden stated:
Biden began his speech by saying to McCarthy, “Mr. Speaker, I don’t want to ruin your reputation, but I look forward to working with you.”
In exchange for raising the debt ceiling, Republicans want Biden to cut spending.
However, Biden made it clear that he would not be coerced into accepting Republican spending cuts, despite the fact that he stated that he wants to tax the wealthy to reduce the federal deficit. By asserting that some Republicans would like to “sunset” Medicare and Social Security, he drew boos and shouts of “liar.”
McCarthy has pledged to continue insisting on Biden cutting spending. However, he may have difficulty uniting his constituents given his razor-thin House majority and fractured party conference, making it difficult for him to be elected speaker last month.
Only 43% of Republicans surveyed by Reuters/Ipsos on Sunday approve of McCarthy’s performance on the job. Compared to Biden, who received approval from 76% of Democrats, that rate of support from within his own party is significantly lower.
Trump, who has already announced his own bid for the White House in 2024, was not spared by the possibility that Biden would launch a second campaign in the coming weeks.
Trump presented what he referred to as “the real State of the Union” in a two-minute prerecorded video, describing a nation plagued by inflation, drug traffickers, murderers, rapists, violent criminals, and “millions and millions of illegal aliens.”
The former president also described himself as “a victim” of Biden’s Justice Department, despite the fact that he was the subject of multiple investigations from prosecutors in both federal and state courts.
