Mitch McConnell has accused Joe Biden of being led in the ‘wrong’ direction on his first full day in office.
McConnell, who until the Senate turned his hands Wednesday as Majority Leader, said he was not caught up in the initial actions of Biden, whom he has known for decades, and accused him of visible on the left margin of his party.
Biden served in the Senate from 1973 to 2009.
McConnell, like Biden 78, has been in the Senate since 1985.
The Kentucky Republican, now the Minority Leader in the Senate, was not caught up in Biden’s actions on immigration, climate change, civil rights and COVID.
Mitch McConnell on Thursday raised concerns about Joe Biden’s initial moves as president
Biden, who has known McConnell for nearly 40 years, spent his day dismantling Trump’s policies
Biden signed 17 orders of action or action Wednesday afternoon, getting to work immediately after being sworn in at noon.
Many of his orders were to repeal Donald Trump’s policies, such as revoking permission for the Keystone Pipeline, reverting to the Paris Climate Agreement and removing an adviser general statement nominated by Trump to the National Labor Relations Board.
‘On the first day of Biden’s administration, he took a number of major steps in the wrong direction,’ McConnell said, adding that it is time for Biden to ‘remember that it is not because of his choice of the far left. ‘
McConnell in particular said Biden’s immigration reform was a problem for him and his constituents.
Six of the 17 orders, memoranda and Biden’s call deal with immigration. He ordered efforts to deactivate Delayed Action for the Future of Childhood, a program called DACA that has shielded hundreds of thousands of people who came to the U.S. as children from deportation. since its introduction in 2012. It extended temporary legal status to Liberians who fled civil war and the Ebola revolution to June 2022.
The Department of Homeland Security announced a 100-day moratorium on exports ‘for some incompetent people,’ beginning Friday, after Biden revoked one of Trump’s earliest regulatory orders. making anyone in the country illegally a priority for export.
His most ambitious proposal, unveiled Wednesday, is an immigration bill that would give legal status and access to citizenship to anyone in the United States by Jan. 1 – about 11 million people – and reduced the time family members have to wait outside the United States for green cards.
Biden announced Wednesday that the United States is returning to the World Health Organization
‘The new administration has also devised a proposal for a blanket amnesty that would crack down on enforcement for American laws while at the same time creating major new incentives for people to riot here illegally at the same time. , ‘he said.
This kind of failed approach will invite another humanitarian crisis on our border. ‘
McConnell also reminded Biden and the narrow majority of Democrats that Americans voted to hold a secessionist Senate, with 50 Republicans and 50 Democrats.
McConnell said that means Republicans intend to challenge policies they believe will adversely affect their constituents.
‘If and when our Democratic friends depart from common sense, when they return from common ground, when their proposals would harm the common good – we will use the power given to us by the American people to push for the that is right, ‘he said.
‘The president can and should refocus his administration on creating well-paid American jobs, without sacrificing the livelihoods of our people to liberal symbolism.’
McConnell and Biden, both 78, are pictured together in January 2016
The house’s Head of Minorities, Kevin McCarthy, told reporters Thursday that he was disappointed to see that within hours of taking office, the new administration was more interested in it. helping illegal immigrants more than helping our own citizens, more interest in impact indicators for climate activists than supporting the union workers who were building Keystone pipeline, ‘among other complaints.
McConnell and McCarthy ‘s reactions will be a harsh wake – up call for those still bathed in the warm glue of the Biden establishment.
On Wednesday the new president used his speech to the country, on the steps of the capitol, to urge unity and healing after four years of separation.
The rose-tinted glasses were quickly removed.
‘Every first event is about unity,’ said Matt Bennett of the center-left group Third Way.
He told Politico: ‘But how do you make your first establishment of unity at a time when your predecessor tried to execute a cup two weeks earlier?’