White House Ignores American Interests
The White House requires a reminder that it is employed by and is supposed to work for the people of the United States.
The interests of the American people appear to be a remote afterthought for the current Administration. In energy, the economy, and other key national interests, the White House appears to place foreign interests above those of the nation he is entrusted to lead.
The President’s disaffection from the U.S. population has been made abundantly clear not just in broad policies but in specific responses. He refused to go to Ohio in the wake of a disastrous train wreck that caused massive disruption in the lives of the population in that state. His initial reaction to the catastrophic fire in Maui was “no comment.”
Mayors and governors, many from his own party, have begged the Administration to cease it’s open border policy that has caused havoc on cities and states, a plea that has been ignored. Senator John Tune (R-SD) states that “President Biden hasn’t just happened to preside over a record-breaking influx of illegal immigration at the southern border. The chaos we’ve been experiencing is a direct result of the president’s policies.”
The White House choses to address the “root causes” of poverty in Latin America, by importing the poor and having U.S. cities and states take up that foreign burden.
While examples abound, energy is a salient example. Perhaps Biden harbors the misconception that the U.S. exists on a planet apart from other nations. How else to explain that, in the name of “climate change,” he has decimated domestic fuel production and increased imports from other nations?
Biden’s bizarre energy choices were clearly seen in his action to close down the Keystone XL pipeline. After moving against that necessary project, Biden shocked observers by approving the Nord Stream pipeline from Russia to Germany, managed by a Russian company. The move increased our European allies on the Kremlin, and the idea proved especially poor when sanctions became necessary following Putin’s Ukraine invasion.
Rep. Clay Higgins (R-LA) noted that “Biden’s anti-American energy policies have hurt America in more ways than one…“These actions have cost countless American jobs, increased our reliance on foreign nations for oil and gas, and raised costs for American families.”
In 2021, Adam Brandon, writing for Real Clear Energy, reported that “the Biden administration is pleading with OPEC, the Middle Eastern oil cartel, to ramp up oil production. Rather than putting America first, Biden is wreaking havoc on domestic energy production and then asking foreign nations to pick up the slack. Since taking office, Biden has shown nothing but hostility towards clean and reliable American oil and gas and the jobs the industry creates. One of his first actions as president was to issue a moratorium on new oil and gas leases on federal lands.
Trade is crucial for American prosperity. However, in the face of many international challenges, Biden has chosen to ignore American needs. In 2022, Senator Mike Crapo (R-Idaho), Ranking Member of the U.S. Senate Finance Committee complained the Biden Administration capitulated to the demands of some of the United States’ most disruptive trading partners at the World Trade Organization (WTO) Ministerial Conference. Specifically, the Biden Administration accepted a deal that will weaken longstanding rules protecting intellectual property rights and proposed rules in new agreements. This deal will undermine U.S. trade interests and cost American jobs.
Biden’s State Department recently announced a “Global Health” Initiative, while largely failing to act on significant medical issues within his own nation. Just one example: A Share America report found that “In 2021, 1,205 women died of maternal causes in the United States compared with 861 in 2020 and 754 in 2019 (2). The maternal mortality rate for 2021 was 32.9 deaths per 100,000 live births, compared with a rate of 23.8 in 2020 and 20.1 in 2019.”
A prosperous, healthy and strong America is the greatest asset the U.S. can offer the world. President Biden appears to have forgotten that.
Frank Vernuccio serves as editor-in-chief of the New York Analysis of Policy and Government.
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