{"id":1215003,"date":"2022-01-13T18:49:27","date_gmt":"2022-01-13T23:49:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1215003"},"modified":"2022-01-13T18:49:33","modified_gmt":"2022-01-13T23:49:33","slug":"psaki-on-biden-agenda-going-pretty-poorly-right-now-we-just-dont-see-it-through-the-same-prism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/psaki-on-biden-agenda-going-pretty-poorly-right-now-we-just-dont-see-it-through-the-same-prism\/","title":{"rendered":"Psaki On Biden Agenda \u2018Going Pretty Poorly Right Now\u2019: \u2018We Just Don\u2019t See It Through The Same Prism\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">36<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fpsaki-on-biden-agenda-going-pretty-poorly-right-now-we-just-dont-see-it-through-the-same-prism%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1215003&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki attempted to deflect criticism on Thursday over the Biden administration\u2019s numerous struggles by saying that they just don\u2019t see it that way and that they are not trying to see if people support \u201cbunny rabbits and ice cream.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFrankly, things just seem like they\u2019re going pretty poorly right now,\u201d a reporter told Psaki, \u201cBuild Back Better\u2019s being blocked, voting rights is being blocked, diplomatic talks with Russia doesn\u2019t seem to have brought us back from the brink of war, inflation is at a 40 year high, the virus is setting records for infections.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo, as we kind of hit this one year period, and a period where everything seems like it\u2019s in pretty rough shape for nearly everything, which is not an invitation, I guess, to list off some other things. I\u2019m wondering at what point do you take stock and say that things need to change internally, whether it\u2019s your outreach for the Hill, whether it\u2019s the leadership within the White House, you seem to be stymied on an incredible number of fronts right now,\u201d the reporter added.<\/p>\n<p>Psaki responded by spinning the administration\u2019s accomplishments and highlighting a couple successes they\u2019ve had, like passing the infrastructure bill.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe fact that we are still continuing to work with members to determine the path forward on Build Back Better, that we have the vast majority of Democrats in the Senate supporting voting rights,\u201d she continued. \u201cThat\u2019s a path forward for us. And our effort is to do hard things, try hard things, and keep at it. So, we just don\u2019t see it through the same prism.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo the sense is things are going well, there\u2019s no need for change right now?\u201d the reporter pressed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think that having worked in a White House before, you do hard things in White Houses, you have every challenge laid at your feet, whether it\u2019s global or domestically,\u201d Psaki answered. \u201cAnd we could certainly propose legislation to see if people support bunny rabbits and ice cream, but that wouldn\u2019t be very rewarding to the American people. So the president\u2019s view is we\u2019re going to keep pushing for hard things, and we\u2019re going to keep pushing the boulders up the hill to get it done.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>WATCH:<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/justinsink?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@justinsink<\/a>: &#8220;So, the sense is things are going well?&#8221;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PressSec?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@PressSec<\/a>: &#8220;You do hard things in White Houses\u2026We could certainly propose legislation to see if people support bunny rabbits and ice cream but that wouldn\u2019t be very rewarding to the American people.&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Urkc2CVyzi\">pic.twitter.com\/Urkc2CVyzi<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 CSPAN (@cspan) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/cspan\/status\/1481737135740919810?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 13, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>TRANSCRIPT:<\/p>\n<p><em>REPORTER: I had a couple specific ones, but I wanted to kind of follow on that. As you\u2019re determining next steps, I mean, frankly, things just seem like they\u2019re going pretty poorly right now. For the White House, you know, Build Back Better\u2019s being blocked, voting rights is being blocked, diplomatic talks with Russia doesn\u2019t seem to have brought us back from the brink of war, inflation is at a 40 year high, the virus is setting records for infections. So, as we kind of hit this one year period, and a period where everything seems like it\u2019s in pretty rough shape, or nearly everything, which is not an invitation, I guess, to list off some other things. I\u2019m wondering at what point do you take stock and say that things need to change internally, whether it\u2019s your outreach for the Hill, whether it\u2019s the leadership within the White House; you seem to be stymied on an incredible number of fronts right now.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>JEN PSAKI, PRESS SECRETARY: Well, let me give you a little bit of a different take on this. More than 200 million people are vaccinated, we\u2019ve had record job growth, record low unemployment rates, historically, in this country over the last year. We\u2019ve rebuilt our alliances and our relationships around the world. And right now, as it relates to Russia, as you heard our national security adviser convey, we\u2019re working with partners around the world to convey very clearly, it\u2019s up to them to make a choice about what\u2019s next. We\u2019re not going to make that on their behalf. It\u2019s up to them to determine if there are going to be crippling economic sanctions or not, or if they decide to move forward. But we also recognize when you have a small margin and threshold in the Senate, it\u2019s very difficult to get things done and to get legislation passed. And the fact that the president, under his leadership, got the American Rescue Plan passed, a bipartisan infrastructure bill with 19 votes in the Senate, about six votes in the House. The fact that we are still continuing to work with members to determine the path forward on Build Back Better, that we have the vast majority of Democrats in the Senate supporting voting rights. That\u2019s a path forward for us. And our effort is<\/p>\n<p><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki attempted to deflect criticism on Thursday over the Biden administration\u2019s numerous struggles by saying that they just don\u2019t see it that way and that they are not trying to see if people support \u201cbunny rabbits and ice cream.\u201d \u201cFrankly, things just seem like they\u2019re going pretty poorly right now,\u201d &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":134,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1215003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1215003","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/134"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1215003"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1215003\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1215003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1215003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1215003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}