Just before President Joe Biden visited Wisconsin on Wednesday, a U.S. senator from the state released a scathing statement on the 46th president’s Tuesday night State of the Union address.
“In spite of President Biden’s inaugural speech promise that his number one goal was to heal and unify our nation, today, America is even further divided due to his mismanagement of the economy, our southern border, foreign policy, and COVID-19,” Senator Ron Johnson (R-WI) said in a statement.
President Biden seems oblivious to the harm his administration and policies have caused Americans. Unfortunately, the State of the Union is not good, and it will not improve with President Biden and Democrats in total control of the federal government. pic.twitter.com/sjtTYJzg1t
— Senator Ron Johnson (@SenRonJohnson) March 2, 2022
Particularly, Johnson mentioned COVID-19 mandates that he called “coercive,” and noted that more Americans died of COVID-19 under Biden’s administration than that of former President Donald J. Trump.
He highlighted inflation and rising taxes, the fact that Biden stopped building Trump’s border wall and ended the “Remain in Mexico” policy – both of which were effective in slowing the number of illegal aliens crossing the southern border – and Biden’s botched withdrawal from Afghanistan which saw American citizens stranded in a Taliban-captured Kabul.
“The fact that President Biden seems oblivious to the harm his administration and policies have caused to Americans ensures that he will not change course and that his failures will continue,” the statement said. “Unfortunately, the State of the Union is not good, and it will not improve with President Biden and Democrats in total control of the federal government.”
Ahead of Biden’s visit, the Republican Governor’s Association, too, took a swipe at Biden, along with Wisconsin Governor Tony Evers (D).
“If you are a family member of a homicide victim in Wisconsin, Governor Tony Evers simply does not have the time to meet with you, but if you are a historically unpopular and failed president of the United States, he’s suddenly got all the time in the world,”said RGA Spokeswoman Maddie Anderson. “As long as Evers is linked with Biden, he’s toast in November. Maybe he realizes the cake is already baked and he may as well use his title to score a meeting.”
– – –
Pete D’Abrosca is a reporter at The Wisconsin Daily Star and The Star News Network. Follow Pete on Twitter. Email tips to [email protected].
Photo “Ron Johnson” by Gage Skidmore. CC BY-SA 2.0. Photo “Joe Biden” by The White House. Background Photo “Wisconsin Capitol” by Carol M. Highsmith.
