{"id":431203,"date":"2021-04-16T17:20:20","date_gmt":"2021-04-16T21:20:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=431203"},"modified":"2021-04-16T17:20:30","modified_gmt":"2021-04-16T21:20:30","slug":"white-house-backtracks-after-top-dems-slam-bidens-decision-to-keep-trumps-refugee-caps-in-place","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/white-house-backtracks-after-top-dems-slam-bidens-decision-to-keep-trumps-refugee-caps-in-place\/","title":{"rendered":"White House Backtracks After Top Dems Slam Biden\u2019s Decision To Keep Trump\u2019s Refugee Caps In Place"},"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\">32<\/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-backtracks-after-top-dems-slam-bidens-decision-to-keep-trumps-refugee-caps-in-place%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=431203&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>The White House quickly backtracked President Joe Biden\u2019s Friday decision to maintain the Trump administration\u2019s low refugee cap levels and now maintains that he will set a \u201cfinal, increased\u201d cap by May 15.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe President\u2019s directive today has been the subject of some confusion,\u201d press secretary Jen Psaki said in a statement distributed Friday afternoon. \u201cLast week, he sent to Congress his budget for the fiscal year starting in October 2021, which honors his commitment. For the past few weeks, he has been consulting with his advisors to determine what number of refugees could realistically be admitted to the United States between now and October 1. Given the decimated refugee admissions program we inherited, and burdens on the Office of Refugee Resettlement, his initial goal of 62,500 seems unlikely.\u201d <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/04\/16\/joe-biden-refugee-cap-promise-donald-trump\/\">(RELATED: Biden To Maintain Trump Administration\u2019s Low Refugee Cap Despite Promise To Increase It: Report)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7172682\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" readability=\"36\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-7172682\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">US President Joe Biden takes part in an expanded bilateral meeting with Japan\u2019s Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga in the State Dining Room of the White House in Washington, DC on April 16, 2021. (Photo by MANDEL NGAN\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Psaki added that \u201cwhile finalizing that determination, the President was urged to take immediate action to reverse the Trump policy that banned refugees from many key regions, to enable flights from those regions to begin within days; today\u2019s order did that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith that done,\u201d she continued, \u201cwe expect the President to set a final, increased refugee cap for the remainder of this fiscal year by May 15.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2021\/04\/16\/politics\/progressive-outrage-refugee-cap-biden\/index.html\">Top Democratic politicians and activists<\/a> slammed Biden\u2019s decision \u2014 handed down just hours before Psaki\u2019s backtracking statement \u2014 as a major betrayal of a campaign promise.<\/p>\n<p>Democratic New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez tweeted that \u201cBiden promised to welcome immigrants, and people voted for him based on that promise,\u201d but instead upheld \u201cthe xenophobic and racist policies\u201d of the <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2020\/03\/18\/us-suspends-refugee-admissions-coronavirus\/\">Trump administration<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese refugees can wait years for their chance and go through extensive vetting,\u201d Illinois Democratic Sen. Dick Durbin said in a statement. \u201cThirty-five thousand are ready. Facing the greatest refugee crisis in our time there is no reason to limit the number to 15,000. Say it ain\u2019t so, President Joe.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>House Judiciary Committee chairman Jerry Nadler said that the announcement fell \u201cfar short\u201d of Biden\u2019s past promises on the issue.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/04\/16\/us\/biden-refugees-cap.html?campaign_id=60&amp;emc=edit_na_20210416&amp;instance_id=0&amp;nl=breaking-news&amp;ref=cta&amp;regi_id=75745370&amp;segment_id=55725&amp;user_id=53f102c5a21978b5789da28671b0ac0a\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Previous reporting<\/a> indicated that the president originally made his decision due to political pressure stemming from the ongoing crisis at the United States\u2019 southern border.<\/p>\n<p><em>This is a developing story and will be updated as more information becomes available.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The White House quickly backtracked President Joe Biden\u2019s Friday decision to maintain the Trump administration\u2019s low refugee cap levels and now maintains that he will set a \u201cfinal, increased\u201d cap &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2276142,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-431203","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\/431203","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=431203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431203\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2276142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=431203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=431203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=431203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}