{"id":549673,"date":"2021-06-02T14:20:38","date_gmt":"2021-06-02T18:20:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=549673"},"modified":"2021-06-02T14:20:44","modified_gmt":"2021-06-02T18:20:44","slug":"psaki-walks-back-bidens-call-out-of-democratic-senators-says-he-wasnt-criticizing-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/psaki-walks-back-bidens-call-out-of-democratic-senators-says-he-wasnt-criticizing-them\/","title":{"rendered":"Psaki Walks Back Biden\u2019s Call-Out Of Democratic Senators, Says He Wasn\u2019t Criticizing Them"},"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\">26<\/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-walks-back-bidens-call-out-of-democratic-senators-says-he-wasnt-criticizing-them%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=549673&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--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Screen-Shot-2021-06-02-at-12.55.14-PM-e1622655655107.png\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p>White House press secretary Jen Psaki appeared to walk back President Joe Biden\u2019s swipe at two Democratic senators for allegedly \u201cvoting more with\u201d his \u201cRepublican friends.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Biden, during remarks Tuesday commemorating the centennial of the 1921 <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/06\/01\/joe-biden-tulsa-race-massacre\/\">Tulsa Race Massacre<\/a> in Oklahoma, highlighted the \u201cright to vote\u201d and urged Congress to act on this issue. Biden continued on to <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/06\/01\/joe-biden-swipe-joe-manchineel-kyrsten-sinema-voting-republicans\/\">call out two<\/a> members of his own party \u2013 presumably Democratic Sens. Joe Manchin of West Virginia and Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona \u2013 for supporting the filibuster, though he did not directly name them.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI hear all the folks on TV saying, \u2018why doesn\u2019t Biden get this done?&#8217;\u201d the president said. \u201cWell, because Biden only has the majority of effectively four votes in the House and a tie in the Senate, with two members of the Senate who vote more with my Republican friends. But we\u2019re not giving up.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Psaki was asked about Biden\u2019s swipe during Wednesday\u2019s press briefing and one reporter pointed out that Manchin and <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/01\/25\/kyrsten-sinema-against-eliminating-filibuster-senate-not-open-to-changing-mind\/\">Sinema<\/a> have \u201cvoted with Biden 100% of the time.\u201d The reporter wondered why Biden felt the need to call the duo out and Psaki first said that she believes the two Democrats \u201cwould call out their own independent streaks\u201d if present in the briefing room.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you look at what the president said, the big tell here is, \u2018I hear all the folks on TV saying.\u2019 Now as a former TV pundit myself, I can tell you that sometimes these conversations can be oversimplified. TV isn\u2019t always made for complex conversations about policymaking. We all know that right, and what the president was simply conveying is that his threshold, his litmus test, is not to see eye to eye on every single detail on every issue,\u201d Psaki said.<\/p>\n<p><strong>WATCH:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd he doesn\u2019t with Sen. Sinema and Sen. Manchin, and he doesn\u2019t with [Republican West Virginia] Sen. [Shelley Moore] Capito who\u2019s coming here later this afternoon. He believes there\u2019s an opportunity to work together, to make progress, to find areas of common ground, even if you of have areas of disagreement,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n<p>The press secretary later downplayed the president\u2019s comments further. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/03\/25\/shaheen-hassan-skeptical-killing-filibuster\/\">(RELATED\u00a0More Democrats Are Skeptical Of Killing The Filibuster)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was not, no,\u201d Psaki said when asked if she was saying it wasn\u2019t a criticism. \u201cHe considers them both friends, he considers them both good, working partners. And he also believes that in democracy, we don\u2019t have to see eye to eye on every single issue in order to work together. And he certainly thinks that reflects their relationship.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>WATCH:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI would say that the fact that the president is having Sen. Capito here today and is having ongoing discussions with Republicans in the Senate and that he\u2019s eager to find a path forward on bipartisan work certainly tells you \u2013 I think \u2013 what you need to know about what he thinks about working with people even when there\u2019s disagreement,\u201d Psaki added.<\/p>\n<p>Capito is meeting with Biden to discuss ongoing negotiations regarding the infrastructure proposal. Republicans and the White House have gone back and forth with counterproposals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>White House press secretary Jen Psaki appeared to walk back President Joe Biden\u2019s swipe at two Democratic senators for allegedly \u201cvoting more with\u201d his \u201cRepublican friends.\u201dBiden, during remarks Tuesday commemorating &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2278939,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Screen-Shot-2021-06-02-at-12.55.14-PM-e1622655655107.png","fifu_image_alt":"Psaki Walks Back Biden\u2019s Call-Out Of Democratic Senators, Says He Wasn\u2019t Criticizing Them","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-549673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Screen-Shot-2021-06-02-at-12.55.14-PM-e1622655655107.png","fifu_image_alt":"Psaki Walks Back Biden\u2019s Call-Out Of Democratic Senators, Says He Wasn\u2019t Criticizing Them","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549673","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=549673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549673\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2278939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=549673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=549673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=549673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}