President Joe Biden blames Donald Trump for the rise of migrants on the southwestern border and says his predecessor dismantled the country’s immigration system and could not provide enough beds for child migrants.
At the first press conference of his presidency, Biden underestimated the number of migrants crossing the border, saying that there had been similar seasonal increases in the past year. Biden said his government is pushing for efforts to reunite children with family members in the country.
“We can do it,” Biden said. “We’ll get it done.”
Biden began the hour-long session by announcing that he plans to double his vaccination target in the first 100 days from 100 million to 200 million gunshots. He also talked about proposals to restrict access to suffrage in many states, calling them ‘un-American’ and ‘sick’.
Some of his comments on migrating families and voting proposals needed fact-checking. Other claims were accurate when we investigated it.
“We are sending back the vast majority of the families that come.”
We judged his claim to be untrue. While most adults who come alone are evicted under a public health law, according to federal data, it is not money for families.
In February, the most recent month for which data is available, Border Patrol evicted about 41 percent of the families (which may include a child and at least one parent) who arrived at the southwestern border. Authorities rejected more than half of the families, about 64 percent, in January. Most of that month fell during the Trump administration.
There was a “28% increase in children to the border in my administration” and “31% … in 2019.” The increase in migration in January, February and March “occurs every year.”
We mostly rated it false. The number of children arriving at the border grew by 63% from January to February 2021, more than double the rate quoted by Biden. The increase was about 33% in 2019, roughly in line with its claim.
Migration usually increases from January to March month to month. But according to Biden, it is claimed that his administration projects encountering Border Patrol on the southern border will be the highest in 20 years.
Some states decide ‘that you can not bring water to people standing in line waiting to vote, and decide that they will end the vote at 17:00’.
Biden has singled out no states, but at least one – Georgia – is on track to ban food or water to in-line voters. He did not give the full picture of his claim about a 17:00 cut-off that would affect ‘working people’.
The Georgia House passed a bill, HB 531, on March 1 that “prohibits any money or gift, including, but not limited to, food and drink, to a voter.” Such gifts will be prohibited within 150 feet of a building where people vote, within any polling station or within 25 feet of any voter standing in line. An offense is considered an offense.
A bill in the Senate of Georgia has a similar language, except that it allows “self-service water from an unguarded container.”
Several proposed bills in several states will reduce early voting hours. We did not find one that hampered Election Day on Election Day. The White House pointed to the Georgia proposal, which stipulates the early voting hours of the weekday at 5 p.m., although the provinces also allowed it to extend hours until 7 p.m.
A Michigan bill bans the use of absentee ballots after 5 p.m. the day before Election Day, which is 27 hours earlier than the current law.
In Texas, a proposal according to the Texas Tribune will limit voting hours from 8 to 17 hours and from 7 to 19 hours during the first week.
In Arkansas, Republicans introduced a bill that would vote earlier at 4pm on the Saturday before the election, rather than the current 17:00 on the Monday before the election.
Biden said ‘yes’ when asked by a reporter if he agreed with former President Barack Obama’s remark at the funeral of Rep. John Lewis that “the filibuster was a remnant of the Jim Crow era.”
The rise of the filibuster – the instrument by which a minority of senators can hold a final vote on legislation – has its origins in race-related legislation, and it has been used against a wide variety of bills throughout the history of the Senate.
Historians, however, agree that the filibuster has been closely linked to anti-civil law efforts in the Senate for more than a century, thanks to repeated attempts by southern senators to filibuster civil rights bills.
Historians have said the filibuster’s decades of use in opposition to civil rights bills have bequeathed it as a historic stain. “The history of filibuster, civil and suffrage and race in America is intertwined,” said Steven S. Smith, a political scientist and Senate specialist at Washington University in St. Louis. Louis, said.
‘Since the adoption of the (US bailout plan), a majority of economic forecasters have significantly increased their projections on the economic growth that will take place this year. They now plan for it to exceed 6 percent. ”
Biden is right that several well-watched forecasters have raised their projections to at least 6 percent, most of which specifically mention Biden’s $ 1.9 billion coronavirus relief bill, which he signed on March 11th.
On March 17, the Federal Reserve’s Public Market Committee said it expected GDP to rise by 6.5 percent this year, up from the 4.2 percent it predicted in December. The Fed’s statement partially credited ‘economic support policies’.
On the same day, Fitch Ratings increased its growth forecast for 2021 from 4.5 percent to 6.2 percent, saying the “main driver” was “the much larger-than-expected fiscal stimulus package”. ‘Other private rating agencies have also increased their projections, including European bank HSBC Holdings, Deutsche Bank and money manager Pimco.
‘In the’ 60s, we invested a little over 2 percent of our total (gross domestic product) in pure research and investment in science. Today it is 0.7 percent. ”
This is accurate.
Biden mentions these statistics in the context of US competition with the US and argues that we need to invest more in basic and applied research.
Data from the National Science Foundation shows that federal spending as a percentage of gross domestic product peaked at nearly 1.9 percent in 1964 and has since generally dropped to 0.6 percent in 2017, the most recent year for which the foundation has complete data.