{"id":2237174,"date":"2024-05-04T12:18:02","date_gmt":"2024-05-04T16:18:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/white-house-report-card-unemployment-campus-chaos-cast-shadow\/"},"modified":"2024-05-04T12:22:07","modified_gmt":"2024-05-04T16:22:07","slug":"white-house-report-card-unemployment-campus-chaos-cast-shadow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/white-house-report-card-unemployment-campus-chaos-cast-shadow\/","title":{"rendered":"White House Report Card: Unemployment and Campus Chaos Loom"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/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%2Fwhite-house-report-card-unemployment-campus-chaos-cast-shadow%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=2237174&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>This week&#8217;s White House Report Card \u2064highlights President\u200b Joe\u200b Biden&#8217;s challenges with rising campus\u2064 protests, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bidens-first-100-days-promote-big-government\/\" title=\"Biden\u2019s first 100 days promote Big Government\">increasing unemployment<\/a>, and inflation. Despite a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/disaster-u-s-economy-added-just-210000-jobs-in-november\/\" title=\"Disaster: U.S. Economy Added Just 210,000 Jobs in November\">weaker <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/treasury-secretary-janet-yellen-we-have-to-consider-rising-inflation-rates-when-doing-stimulus-package\/\" title=\"Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen: \u2018We Have To Consider\u2019 Rising Inflation Rates When Doing Stimulus Package\">jobs report<\/a><\/a> \u200band a 3.9% unemployment rate, the administration&#8217;s job creation claims are questioned. Inflation persists, affecting fuel and housing prices. Election polls show a decline \u200dfor Biden, and his handling \u200cof campus protests receives mixed reactions.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>This week\u2019s White House Report Card finds President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/joe-biden\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Joe Biden<\/a> in a bind over campus protests of his Middle East policies, rising unemployment and inflation, and depressing reelection polls.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/inflation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Inflation<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/employment\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>unemployment<\/a> flashed red when a jobs report came in weaker than expected on Friday, and the unemployment rate popped up to 3.9%. While it remains remarkably low, the increase undercut the administration\u2019s election year claim that it was creating jobs.<\/p>\n<p>What\u2019s more, inflation continued to show its face with higher prices, especially for fuel and housing.<\/p>\n<p>Biden\u2019s recent surge in election polls began to fade. A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/washington-secrets\/2989911\/trump-in-blowout-territory-leads-biden-by-10-12-points\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Rasmussen Reports<\/a> survey even showed him 10 points behind former President Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<figure><\/figure>\n<p>And after ignoring the campus protests over the Israel-Hamas war, Biden finally gave a short statement Thursday, but it didn\u2019t appease younger voters encamped at many of the nation\u2019s premier universities.<\/p>\n<p>Pollster John Zogby, in grading the week a C-minus, said Biden angered campus pollsters anew with his call for law and order. Conservative analyst Jed Babbin said the week was a failure, citing more student loan \u201cforgiveness\u201d and plans to bring Palestinian refugees to the United States.<\/p>\n<p><strong>John Zogby<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span>Grade: C-<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>President Joe Biden is in a real bind over Gaza and the college protests.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>While the issue on the ground had been his blind support for the Israeli Prime Minister <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/Benjamin-Netanyahu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Benjamin Netanyahu<\/a>\u2019s war against civilians, he had been backing off just a little by insisting on more access to aid for the Palestinians and a ceasefire. Neither of those calls appeared to be satisfying young and progressive voters who he will need in the fall.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Seeing that he and fellow Democrats are taking a beating on law and order, Biden took the hardline approach by supporting police action on campuses and condemning the invasion of property and lawlessness of protestors. By doing so, he further alienated himself from these GenZ protestors and those who chose to support their freedom of speech.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Polling shows he is not going to go anywhere with law-and-order voters nor with younger voters who want to end the war in Gaza and discuss divestment from those who manufacture and supply arms to Israel.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The only thing that propped him up this week was having the public meet the motley cast at former President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/donald-trump\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Donald Trump<\/a>\u2018s hush money trial.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Jed Babbin<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span>Grade: F<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>President Joe Biden\u2019s regulatory onslaught continued with everything from HUD rules increasing home construction costs to new Title IX regulations permitting <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/transgender\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>transgender<\/a> males to participate in women\u2019s sports (and everything else, including bathrooms and showers). But all that \u2014 which we\u2019ll get to in a minute \u2014 paled in comparison to Biden\u2019s plan to import illegal aliens from the Gaza Strip.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>We have no treaty, or any moral, ethical or obligation to admit Palestinian illegal aliens from the Gaza Strip. No Arab country will admit a single one because they rightly fear that with them comes the dangers of Hamas terrorism. So, naturally, Biden wants to bring them in. The plans aren\u2019t final yet, but they probably will be next week. Meanwhile, he\u2019s totally silent on the American hostages still held by Hamas.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Biden finally spoke out against the college pro-Hamas and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/soros-backed-activist-group-pushes-high-school-walk-out-for-gaza\/\" title=\"Soros-funded activists promote Gaza high school 'walk out'.\">anti-semitic protests<\/a> that have become common in most parts of the country.\u00a0 But he did so by making moral equivalence between the rampant anti-semitism and Islamophobia. It\u2019s not Islamophobia to condemn in the severest terms those who kill randomly, use rape as a weapon of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/war\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>war<\/a> and take hostages. (All of those things are war crimes under the Geneva Conventions.)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The cost of Biden\u2019s illegal \u2014 and, by that, I mean his lack of statutory authority to do it \u2014 student loan \u201cforgiveness\u201d program may reach $1.4 trillion. And while we\u2019re at it, Biden\u2019s transgender largesse on Title IX is also illegal in that Congress would have to change the law in order to accomplish what Biden does with regulations. Congress hasn\u2019t done it, so Biden\u2019s regulations are illegal.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>HUD\u2019s announced that new homes are going to have to meet the new International Energy Conservation Code standards, which the National Association of Home Builders says will add as much as $31,000 to the cost of a new home. There\u2019s no law allowing that, either.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/washington-secrets\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">SEE THE LATEST POLITICAL NEWS AND BUZZ FROM WASHINGTON SECRETS<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>John Zogby<\/strong> is the founder of the Zogby Survey and senior partner at <a href=\"https:\/\/johnzogbystrategies.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>John Zogby Strategies.<\/a> His podcast with son and managing partner and pollster Jeremy Zogby <a href=\"https:\/\/johnzogbystrategies.com\/the-zogby-report\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>can be heard here.<\/a> Their firm polls for independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Follow him on X @ZogbyStrategies.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jed Babbin<\/strong> is a <em>Washington Examiner<\/em> contributor and former deputy undersecretary of defense in the administration of former President George H.W. Bush. Follow him on X @jedbabbin.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week&#8217;s White House Report Card sees President Joe Biden facing challenges with campus protests on his Middle East policies, increasing unemployment and inflation rates, and declining reelection polls. The recent weaker-than-expected jobs report highlighted red flags in inflation and unemployment, with the rate reaching 3.9%, adding pressure on the administration<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2647,"featured_media":2237175,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/wex-s3.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/AP24124794904378-1-1024x683.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2237174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/wex-s3.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/AP24124794904378-1-1024x683.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2237174","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\/2647"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2237174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2237174\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2237175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2237174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2237174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2237174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}