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White House Biden awarded 'three Pinocchios' for absurd 'twist' on Republicans cutting Border Patrol

The dishonest spin from the White House blaming Republican lawmakers for the crisis on the southern border was too much even for the usually friendly Washington Post.

In a scathing rebuke of White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre and deputy press secretary Andrew Bates, the newspaper's fact-checker awarded President Joe Biden's spokespeople “three Pinocchios” for their claims misleading about House Republicans' vote to eliminate 2,000 Border Patrol agents.

Friday, at yours column titled “White House Makes GOP 'Cuts' of 2,000 Border Patrol Agents,” WaPo's Glenn Kessler highlighted Jean-Pierre and Bates' remarks which he proceeded to dismantle by putting the distortions in their proper context.

“House Republicans continue to pull political stunts. They get in the way. In May they voted to eliminate 2,000 Border Patrol agents. That's what they're doing,” Jean-Pierre, who hired Biden's diversity, is quoted as saying in a remarkable lie highlighted by Kessler.

“House Republicans took numerous votes that would have hurt economic growth and our national security, such as trying to eliminate more than 2,000 Border Patrol agents,” Bates said in another quote used by the WaPo.

“But there's a big problem with this number,” the fact-checker wrote. “It's not based on an actual vote on the Homeland Security budget. Instead, it's a White House estimate of the impact of a bill the House passed in 2023 as an opening bid in budget talks with the Biden administration. When it came to an actual vote on border security, the House passed an appropriations bill in September that funded 1,795 additional Border Patrol agents. It was four times the increase (350 officers) that President Biden had called for in his own 2024 budget proposal.”

Kessler informed readers that the bill, called the Limit, Save, Grow Act of 2023, was “vague” and that “House GOP leaders crafted the bill that way because the details about what programs would be targeted for cuts would likely have resulted in fewer votes, which may make it impossible to get the bill passed.”

“Administration officials saw the vagueness of the House bill as an opportunity to go on the attack,” he noted.

“With defense off the table, Republicans would have had to essentially double the cuts in nondefense discretionary spending to meet the $1.5 trillion annual spending goal,” Kessler wrote. “The White House assumed that this would require a 22 percent reduction in spending across all other agencies, such as Homeland Security. As a result, the administration calculated, the size of the Border Patrol would have to be reduced by 2,000 through layoffs, attrition and layoffs to meet the 22 percent goal. If Republicans wanted to save the Border Patrol like they did the military, then the cuts would increase elsewhere in the government.”

“It's a classic Washington game to misleadingly cite a lawmaker's past votes. The Republican primary debates have been a good example. But the White House is going too far here,” he added.

“Prior votes can certainly be fair game, and White House officials are generally careful to note that they're referring to a vote that took place last May. But those nuances may be lost on Americans who they don't know the federal budget House Republicans may have once supported a tough budget plan, but they never issued a vote specifying that they would cut 2,000 Border Patrol agents — instead, they voted to increase the total by nearly of 2,000. That's a twist worthy of Three Pinocchios,” Kessler concluded.

You know the regime's lies are getting bad when even the Washington Post calls them out.

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