[FoxNews] The administration walked back Biden's declaration on '60 Minutes' Sunday 'The pandemic is over'
PBS NewsHour White House correspondent Laura Barron-Lopez said that Dr. Anthony Fauci and other administration officials are acting as "translators" for President Biden during her appearance on CNN's "Inside Politics with John King."
Barron-Lopez argued that Biden's remarks on CBS's "60 Minutes" this past weekend, in which he declared that the COVID-19 pandemic is "over," left White House officials scrambling to clean up his messaging. This scramble undermined Biden's authority, she argued.
"I mean, we’ve essentially left people like the Surgeon General, like Anthony Fauci, to have to go out there, this — you know, in the past few days, to say, ‘Well, this is actually what the president meant,’ meaning that he is saying that — you know, they’re being translators, which doesn’t look good for President Biden," she said.
""It isn’t good for the White House, particularly when there are roughly 300 people dying a day of Covid," she continued.
This is not the first time - or even the only example from the "60 Minutes" interview - that White House officials have contradicted or walked back the Commander-in-Chief's comments after he spoke.
On the issue of Taiwan, Biden committed on "60 Minutes" that U.S. troops would defend the island if China invaded it. However, on Tuesday, National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan walked back Biden's comments, reiterating that U.S. policy on Taiwan has not changed.
Fauci explained Biden's COVID comments in an interview with Politico Monday, "What he really meant is that the very severe stage of the pandemic of having … 3,000 deaths a day — that stage is no longer present … people should not be cavalier that we’re out of the woods."
Some, such as Republican Sen. Marsha Blackburn, have seized the moment in response to Biden's declaration. On Monday, Blackburn introduced legislation that would protect religious members of the military from facing further discrimination due to their vaccine status.
Others, however, such as the liberal NPR, New York Times, and the Washington Post have criticized Biden for stating the pandemic has ended.
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"Give away mountains of free food and the farmers grow khat instead. Then everybody in Somalia starves." An observation in Martin Stanton's autobiographical book Somalia on $5 A Day: A Soldier's Story(2009) about his experiences in Somalia.
Pay people not to work and then soon nobody works.
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Washington has finally figured out that the federal spending binge is helping fuel inflation, which is a primary source of the hardship being felt by the program’s recipients.
[Newsweek] A plane that was involved in flying undocumented migrants to Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts, was headed to an airport near President Joe Biden's home on Tuesday.
Information about the plane's flight plan is available on FlightRadar24 and has led to speculation that it could be carrying migrants, though there is no evidence at this time that migrants will be on board.
The same aircraft flew to Martha's Vineyard on September 14. Florida Governor Ron DeSantis sent two planes carrying undocumented migrants there in a move that has been strongly criticized by lawmakers including by President Biden.
FlightRadar 24 shows the plane, given the designation J328, is set to leave San Antonio, Texas, at 8 a.m. Central time (9 a.m ET) and arrive in Crestview, Florida, at 10:03 a.m. CT (11:03 a.m. ET) for a brief layover, before departing for Delaware Coastal Airport in Sussex County, Delaware, at 10:17 a.m. CT (11:17 a.m. ET).
The airport is about a 40-minute drive from Rehoboth Beach, near to where Biden has a vacation home.
The plane is scheduled to leave Delaware Coastal Airport at 2.30 p.m. ET and head to Teterboro, New Jersey.
The destination of the plane that was recently involved in the migrant flight to Martha's Vineyard has led to online speculation that this flight may be carrying migrants. Texas Governor Greg Abbott recently sent a busload of migrants to the official residence of Vice President Kamala Harris in Washington, D.C.
The migrants transported to Martha's Vineyard were originally picked up in San Antonio.
"One of the planes used in DeSantis' Martha's Vineyard stunt is currently scheduled to travel tomorrow from San Antonio to Florida, to a small airport near Biden's house in Delaware," journalist Judd Legum tweeted on Monday, sharing a screenshot from FlightRadar24.
Twitter user @DefNotDorothy wrote that "DeSantis is flying them to Joe Biden's town in Delaware."
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This morning in Boston, the news crawl said, 'migrants sue DeSantis'. False promises, it seems.
And the beat goes on, the beat goes on.
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How can illegal immigrants sue in OUR courts?
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Ah, "standing." Does anyone doubt they will find a judge who rules that non-citizens do have "standing," while actual citizens do not?
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Suits funded by locals?
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To create the most mischief, Desantis should create a go-fund-me page and supply them with a Republican friendly lawyer that will use the funds to fight to keep them in Biden's home town. If the residents claim that they have a housing crunch, he should offer them some left over FEMA trailers that I am sure Florida has lying around and point to a undeveloped lot near Joes house.
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[Newsweek] A plane that was involved in flying undocumented migrants to 
