https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/washington-secrets/year-1-disaster-60-call-biden-unsuccessful-highest-ever-disunity

Year one disaster: Sixty percent call Biden ‘unsuccessful,’ highest ever disunity

January 19, 2022

President Joe Biden, who promised to unite the nation in his inaugural address one year ago, has failed in epic fashion in the eyes of voters, according to a series of year one polls out this week.

In the latest, 60% called the president’s first year unsuccessful. Worse, said Rasmussen Reports, 50% said Biden has been “very unsuccessful,” and a third of Democrats also think he’s failed.

Add to that a new Gallup survey that found Biden’s promise of unity broken in pieces. “Party polarization highest for first-year president,” it headlined, noting an 83-point divide in his approval ratings between Democrats and Republicans. It was 75 points at the end of former President Donald Trump’s first year.

And Morning Consult had his approval rating at the outfit’s lowest, 40%.

Many of the pollsters have pointed out that Trump’s numbers were slightly worse than Biden’s, but they leave out that fewer expected Trump to do well, while most expected Biden, a vice president for eight years and a senator for decades, would succeed with ease.

Crushing Biden’s numbers has not been the job of Republicans but independents who have abandoned him and exasperated Democrats. Morning Consult said on Wednesday, “Biden is entering his second year in office with his worst job approval rating yet, driven by increasingly tepid support among Democrats that comes as his agenda remains stalled on Capitol Hill.”

Rasmussen’s year in review poll showed Biden’s approval with independents upside down. Just 30% see his presidency as successful versus 69% who don’t.

And the pollster also looked at the president’s unity pledge and, like Gallup, found it to be a failure. Just 12% said the nation was more united, while 57% said it was more divided.

The timing could not be worse for Biden and the Democrats. Without the public's support, the president has been unsuccessful in wooing two holdout senators to back his agenda, and 2022 midterm election predictors are pointing to a GOP blowout.

https://thepostmillennial.com/npr-report-false-sotomayor-gorsuch

DEBUNKED: NPR runs false report claiming Sotomayor is boycotting oral arguments over Gorsuch's refusal to wear a mask

NPR published a story on Tuesday alleging that Supreme Court Justice Gorsuch refused to wear a mask despite worries from Justice Sotomayor, who is diabetic. The only problem with the story is that it appears to be untrue.

NPR published a story on Tuesday alleging that Supreme Court Justice Gorsuch refused to wear a mask despite worries from Justice Sotomayor, who is diabetic. The only problem with the story is that it appears to be untrue.

According to the story, which was written by Nina Totenberg, court sources told the outlet that Sotomayor felt unsafe in close proximity with others, particularly those who are unmasked. Chief Justice John Roberts, understanding that, instructed the other judges and court staffers to mask up. As the report goes, Gorsuch was the only one to reject the instruction.

“They all did. Except Gorsuch, who, as it happens, sits next to Sotomayor on the bench. His continued refusal since then has also meant that Sotomayor has not attended the justices' weekly conference in person, joining instead by telephone,” wrote Totenberg, who goes on to state that Gorsuch’s repeated refusal to mask up has prompted Sotomayor to work remotely, out of the office.

As detailed by Fox News’ Shannon Bream, the story is untrue. A source at the Supreme Court says that there has been no such request from Roberts that the other judges begin wearing masks to arguments. The source further informed the Fox News journalist that Sotomayor made no such requests for Gorsuch to mask up, either.

“I’m told that given that fact, there was also no refusal by Justice Gorsuch,” reported Bream. “The justices are all vaccinated and boosted and they do test before taking the bench for arguments.”

Bream’s report was corroborated by Mike Davis, a former law clerk for Justice Gorsuch and founder of the Internet Accountability Project.

Fact Check: 100% False.

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https://dailycaller.com/2022/01/18/exclusive-arrest-warrants-count-as-id-for-migrants-at-airport-security-tsa-says/

EXCLUSIVE: Arrest Warrants Count As ID For Illegal Migrants At Airport Security, TSA Says

The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) disclosed to a congressional office that illegal migrants flying without proper identification can use an arrest warrant as an alternate form of identification when presenting to airport security, according to a letter the Daily Caller News Foundation exclusively obtained.

Responding to Republican Texas Rep. Lance Gooden’s Dec. 15 inquiry about illegal migrants flying across the country, TSA Administrator David Pekoske explained that certain Department of Homeland Security (DHS) documents may be considered acceptable forms of alternate identification for non-citizens, including a “Warrant for Arrest of Alien” and a “Warrant of Removal/Deportation.”

“TSA’s response confirms the Biden Administration is knowingly putting our national security at risk,” Gooden told the DCNF. “Unknown and unvetted immigrants shouldn’t even be in the country, much less flying without proper identification.”

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https://www.thecentersquare.com/national/rand-paul-federal-covid-stimulus-to-blame-for-record-inflation/article_cf57d0d2-78a6-11ec-9a27-0b94bd54d692.html

Rand Paul: Federal COVID stimulus to blame for record inflation

Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., released a new report Tuesday detailing the effects inflation has had on families and businesses around the country and calling it a “hidden tax” on Americans.

In the report, Paul blames the federal COVID-19 stimulus spending for record high inflation.

“$4.9 trillion in COVID-19 stimulus spending has led to one of the highest and most sustained levels of inflation in U.S. history," Paul said. "While government stimulus spending was intended as a form of relief, and low and middle-income families as well as small business owners were promised that their taxes would not increase, Americans everywhere are now paying a hidden tax called inflation."

In particular, lower-income families and small businesses have been the hardest hit, according to the report.

“This report concludes that, though no formal tax has been levied to pay for the government’s recent spending trends, a hidden, regressive tax has been levied on the American public, charging more from low and middle-income families and small businesses and less from wealthy families and big businesses,” the report said.

The report comes after record increases in prices in recent months. The Department of Labor’s Bureau of Labor Statistics released new inflation figures for December showing the price of goods and services have risen at the fastest rate since 1982.

“The all items index rose 7.0 percent for the 12 months ending December, the largest 12-month increase since the period ending June 1982," BLS said. "The all items less food and energy index rose 5.5 percent, the largest 12-month change since the period ending February 1991. The energy index rose 29.3 percent over the last year, and the food index increased 6.3 percent.”

Meanwhile, the consumer price index data released this month showed the fastest rise in decades.

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