THE SHOW NOTES: Biden's Schedule, Teens in Crisis, & Armed IRS Agents
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Biden 2024
The Biden administration is continuing to face blowback over a cheat sheet Biden referenced at a press conference on Wednesday with reporter’s names, pictures, and questions. Karine Jean-Pierre claimed it was “entirely normal” for a president to be briefed on questions he would face from the press but failed to defend the level of coordination required for Biden to have the reporter’s questions beforehand.
Relatedly, White House staff told Axios that at Biden’s age, his diminished energy is deeply impacting his ability to work. Here’s the quote that matters:
Some White House officials say it's difficult to schedule public or private events with the president in the morning, in the evening, or on weekends: The vast majority of Biden’s public events happen on weekdays, between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m.
Nikki Haley pointed out the uncomfortable truth that the likelihood of Biden surviving his second term is not high. Haley:
If you vote for Joe Biden you really are counting on a President Harris, because the idea that he would make it until 86 years old is not something that I think is likely.
As attacks on Biden mount, Bloomberg reports that Biden’s 2024 campaign message is becoming clear: Republicans want to cut Social Security and Medicare.
While the message is aimed at scaring senior citizens into lining up behind Biden, his campaign is offering no alternative that would prevent Social Security from going bankrupt in 2033 as predicted by the Congressional Budget Office.
Teens In Crisis
Politico published the Youth Risk Behavior Survey that aims to get a pulse on high school students in America and the findings were disturbing.
In 2021, 1 in 5 high school students said they witnessed violence in their communities, and 3.5 percent said they carried a gun. Nearly 9 percent of students said they’d been forced into sex in their life. A third of female students said they had considered suicide in the past year, and over 13 percent said they’d attempted suicide.
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