THE SHOW NOTES: Record Border Crossings, Jobs Go Down While Inflation Goes Up, California’s Assault on Trucks
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Illegal crossings at the border of the US and Mexico set a staggering single-month record in August with 91,000 arrests. The situation is so bad that even Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez slammed the Biden administration by calling immigration Biden’s weakest issue.
Ouch: This did not prevent White House Press Secretary Karine Jeane-Pierre from peddling delusion by responding to her fellow Democrat by saying, "The president has done more to secure the border and to deal with this issue of immigration than anybody else. He really has!" Days earlier, KJP offered this word salad of a response when pressed about Biden’s border plan by Peter Doocy.
Enough: Biden’s border incompetence along with sanctuary cities and states has infuriated blue state governors like Phil Murphy in New Jersey. A federal plan to divert some of New York’s 100,000 migrant population to one of New Jersey’s poorest zip codes has incensed residents and elected officials. Murphy - who once proposed allowing New Jersey to become a sanctuary state - said, “We’ve always been a nation of immigrants, but that doesn’t mean it can be the Wild West.”
Jobs and Inflation
Unemployment jumped to 3.8% one month after inflation edged up to 3.3% according to one of the Federal Reserve’s preferred price gauges. The 187,000 jobs added to the economy last month are well below the average of 400,000 jobs added per month last year.
Worry Over McConnell
Multiple Republican Senators are considering the prospect of forcing a special meeting to formally discuss McConnell’s future in leadership following the disturbing public incident earlier this week. While McConnell’s leadership team is publically backing the Senator, it only takes five rank-and-file Senators to force a special conference meeting.
NR: The editors at The National Review put up this damning piece claiming McConnell needs to step aside with this final line, “Prudence and realism have been hallmarks of his leadership and now are called for in considering his own future.”
Related: As questions continue to circulate about Joe Biden’s age, his staff is only allowing the President to take a short set of stairs when boarding Air Force One as opposed to the standard 18-foot staircase. An NPR (of all places) investigation reveals that since Biden tripped over a sandbag in June, the White House views his age as his greatest political liability and is taking measures like this to prevent further missteps.
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California’s Assault on Trucks
Climate policy keeps colliding with economic and technological reality, and California is ground zero. The state’s latest effort is a forced sprint to ban diesel trucks with nary a concern for costs or consequences.
Truckers are raising alarms about a new mandate proposed by the California Air Resources Board (CARB) to electrify their fleets. Starting next year, drayage operators that transport goods between state’s ports and distribution centers would be prohibited from registering new diesel trucks. By 2035 almost all package delivery, drayage and box trucks would have to be “zero emission.”
That’s the same year California’s ban on new gas-powered cars takes effect, but electrifying trucks will be even more costly and difficult. A mere 272 electric trucks were registered in California as of last year. Under CARB’s mandates, some 510,000 trucks would have to be zero emission by 2035. Talk about putting the pedal to the metal.
Full story at The Wall Street Journal.
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