Joe Biden is proving to be an “absent president” by not giving a solo press conference or scheduling a speech in Congress, despite having been in office for more than six weeks, Joe Concha told America Reports on Thursday.
“I see what President Biden said on January 14, when he said that, as president-elect, he would speak to Congress ‘next month’, as in February,” said Concha, a Fox News contributor and media columnist The Hill. “And when White House press secretary Jen Psaki was asked about this, [she] he said that no promise was made that this would happen, although the president’s own words said that it would happen.
Biden’s immediate predecessor, Donald Trump, gave his first press conference on February 16, 2017, while Barack Obama gave his first press conference on February 9, 2009.
In Biden’s first six weeks, Concha noted, he enacted comprehensive executive actions, such as canceling the Keystone XL pipeline project.
“[With] all these actions that the president is taking without having to be held responsible for them, I think a guy … who got 81 million votes – the maximum in the history of the United States, Joe Biden, with the wind in his back, would take advantage and I would approach the country at a time of crisis in terms of COVID, in terms of the economy, in terms of a rising China, “said Concha,” and instead we have an absent president at this time. “
Concha went on to suggest that Biden’s team “is not confident that this president can handle questions outside of handpicked reporters, that we saw four or five questions and the questions are generally friendly, unless the guy’s name is [Fox News White House correspondent] Peter Doocy, and from there we hear nothing from him when he talks about events. “
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Concha added that he would like to hear Biden answer questions about opening more migrant detention facilities for young people crossing the border, as well as the fact that 91% of his party’s $ 1.9 trillion spending account dubbed it of relief COVID does not finance health-related expenses.
“How do you justify that? I would be curious to see how the president answers these questions,” he said. “I have a feeling we are not going to see that happen anytime soon, because I don’t think there is any confidence that he can do that.”