{"id":810761,"date":"2021-09-24T17:13:30","date_gmt":"2021-09-24T21:13:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=810761"},"modified":"2021-09-24T17:13:31","modified_gmt":"2021-09-24T21:13:31","slug":"biden-defends-his-administrations-record-amid-low-approval-numbers-multiple-crises","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-defends-his-administrations-record-amid-low-approval-numbers-multiple-crises\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden Defends His Administration\u2019s Record Amid Low Approval Numbers, Multiple Crises"},"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\">22<\/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%2Fbiden-defends-his-administrations-record-amid-low-approval-numbers-multiple-crises%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=810761&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><\/div>\n<p>President Joe Biden defended his administration\u2019s record Friday amid multiple crises, telling the nation he remains \u201cconfident\u201d and urging Americans to give it time.<\/p>\n<p>Throughout the summer and into the beginning of fall, Biden\u2019s presidency has been marked by a number of debacles \u2013 consistently mixed <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/07\/29\/joe-biden-federal-employees-confirm-vaccination-status-delta-variant-coronavirus\/\">messaging<\/a> on the global <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/07\/22\/jesse-watters-biden-confusing-covid-messaging-girl-mixed-signals\/\">pandemic<\/a>, the chaotic exit of American troops from <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/09\/23\/taliban-afghanistan-harsh-punishment-sharia-law\/\">Afghanistan<\/a>, a potential government shutdown, infighting among Democrats over the Build Back Better plan and bipartisan infrastructure bill, a <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/09\/19\/biden-bike-ride-beach-southern-border-crisis\/\">border crisis<\/a> and more.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat do you say to Americans who say that you have not delivered on that promise?\u201d NBC News\u2019 Peter Alexander asked Biden on Friday, citing the president\u2019s \u201cmessage of competence and unity\u201d when he first took office.<\/p>\n<p>The president quickly launched into an expansive response that begin with a caveat:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI said it\u2019s going to take me a year to deliver everything I\u2019m looking at here,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Biden continued on to blame former President Donald Trump, saying that Americans need to \u201ctake a look at what\u201d he \u201cinherited\u201d upon entering office. Biden, in addition to dealing with numerous crises, has seen his approval rating sink lower and lower. A Gallup poll <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/09\/22\/joe-biden-kamala-harris-afghanistan-kabul\/\">released<\/a> Wednesday put his approval rating at 43% \u2013 a low for his presidency and six points below Vice President Kamala Harris\u2019 rating.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen I came into office, the state of affairs, and where we were: We had four million people vaccinated. We had no plan. We had \u2013 I mean, I can go down the list,\u201d Biden said. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/09\/17\/joe-biden-fda-milley-drone-strike-afghanistan\/\">(RELATED:&nbsp;Joe Biden\u2019s Week Ended With Two Hours Of Bad News)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>WATCH:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The flashback to Trump is a common theme under the current administration. White House press secretary Jen Psaki has repeatedly blamed the former president for various current crises, from the situation at the <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/09\/23\/psaki-blames-border-crisis-dysfunction-trump-biden-haitian-whips-border-patrol\/\">border<\/a>&nbsp;to issues involving the COVID-19 <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/08\/11\/jen-psaki-donald-trump-inject-poison-cure-covid-19-vaccine-trust-biden\/\">pandemic<\/a> and vaccines.<\/p>\n<p>Biden defended his economic plan, explaining that it is \u201coverwhelmingly popular\u201d and suggesting the issue with getting it passed is that \u201cnot everybody knows what\u2019s in that plan.\u201d He said the plan has the answers Americans are looking for and expressed confidence that the plan will get done \u201cat the end of the day.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The president also defended the price tags, which have been a point of contention among some Democrats. Democratic West Virginia Sen. <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/09\/17\/joe-manchin-biden-brian-deese-spending-package-white-house-economist\/\">Joe Manchin<\/a>, for one, previously expressed concerns over the $3.5 trillion budget plan and <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/08\/11\/joe-manchin-budget-kyrsten-sinema-senate\/\">warned<\/a> that this spending level would have \u201cgrave consequences\u201d on future generations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is simply irresponsible to continue spending at levels more suited to respond to a Great Depression or Great Recession \u2014 not an economy that is on the verge of overheating,\u201d Manchin said in August.<\/p>\n<p>Publicly, the White House appears to have downplayed these concerns. White House Director of the National Economic Council Brian Reese suggested <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/09\/17\/joe-manchin-biden-brian-deese-spending-package-white-house-economist\/\">last week<\/a> that reports indicating Manchin gave Biden a hard \u201cno\u201d on the bill were simply overblown by \u201cheadline writers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Biden also pushed back on these spending concerns, saying Friday that the cost is \u201cgoing to be zero.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou&nbsp;know, people, understandably [say], \u2018Well, you know, it started off at $6 trillion, now it\u2019s $3.5 trillion.&nbsp; Now it\u2019s \u2013 is it going to be $2.9?&nbsp; Is it \u2026&nbsp;It\u2019s going to be zero. Zero,\u201d Biden said. \u201cBecause in the \u2013 in that plan that I put forward \u2013 and I said from the outset \u2013 I said, \u2018I\u2019m running to change the dynamic of how the economy grows.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s all paid for. It\u2019s all paid for,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>The president noted that he \u201chadn\u2019t planned on\u201d the numerous natural disasters that have hit America over the past few months. The country has seen hurricanes, mass flooding and wildfires. Still, Biden said he \u201ckind of anticipated it might happen.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd so, what I had hoped I would be doing, I do what I did in the campaign: I\u2019d be out making the case about what my plan proposal contained.&nbsp; And it\u2019s been very much curtailed by a whole range of things,\u201d Biden said.<\/p>\n<p>Biden said it\u2019s \u201cunderstandable\u201d that people are \u201cfrustrated\u201d and pointed out that it\u2019s not just members of Congress saying they \u201cthought this was going to be better.\u201d He also briefly brought up Afghanistan, telling reporters that he expects the topic to come up during his meeting today with leaders of India, Japan and Australia.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo, I guess, I think it\u2019s a totally legit \u2013 obviously, it\u2019s a legitimate question you\u2019ve asked \u2013 but I think, putting into context here, it\u2019s going to take some time here,\u201d the president reiterated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Joe Biden defended his administration\u2019s record Friday amid multiple crises, telling the nation he remains \u201cconfident\u201d and urging Americans to give it time.Throughout the summer and into the beginning &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-810761","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\/810761","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=810761"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/810761\/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=810761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=810761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=810761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}