Biden LAUGHS at MTG blaming him for overdoses of two brothers - they died under Trump
President Biden laughed off a claim from Rep. that he 'killed' a mother's two sons who overdosed on fentanyl in 2020 because they died during the Trump administration.
Greene on Tuesday claimed that the 18 and 20-year-old sons of Rebecca Kiessling, Kyler and Caleb, died due to Biden administration policies, tweeting a clip of the distraught mother testifying before the House Homeland Security Committee.
Kiessling said her sons had thought they were taking a normal pain pill, but it was laced with fentanyl.
But Biden said on Wednesday night, with a chuckle, that the fentanyl they took 'came during the last administration.'
The president criticized the Georgia Republican, and claimed was going to drive people out of the in droves in an address at the yearly House Democratic retreat in Baltimore.
Biden laughs at Marjorie Taylor Greene during House Democratic conference
He also told to drive home how much they had accomplished legislatively in the last and told them to continue to try to work across the aisle with those who are not 'MAGA Republicans.'
As Democrats huddled together to hear from top brass on their strategy to fight GOP control in the House and take back power in 2024, Biden urged them to run on their record.
'Folks, you know how much we've gotten done. A lot of the country still doesn't know,' he said.
Touting the bipartisan infrastructure bill passed last Congress, he said: 'If we did nothing, nothing but implement what we've already passed and let people know we did it for them, we win.'
But Biden said there was still 'unfinished business,' citing immigration reform, police reform and gun control.
'MAGA Republicans are not gonna get on board for most of these things. That leaves a lot of Republicans that are still left. Republicans can help make a significant majority in some of these things,' he said.
'A little bit more of - few more Marjorie Taylor Greene you're gonna have a lot of Republicans running our way,' Biden said. 'Isn't she amazing?'
'She was very specific recently saying a mom, a mother who lost two kids to fentanyl, that I killed her sons. Well the interesting thing is that fentanyl they took came during the last administration,' Biden said with a chuckle.
'I don't wanna get started,' he added.
'Listen to this mother, who lost two children to fentanyl poisoning, tell the truth about both of her son's murders because of the Biden administrations refusal to secure our border and stop the Cartel's from murdering Americans everyday by Chinese fentanyl,' Greene tweeted.
But the sons died on July 29, 2020, Kiessling said, more than five months before Donald Trump left office.
US deaths from fentanyl have been on the rise since the 2010s, spiking during Covid-19 and continuing to rise under the Biden presidency.
In 2022 107,000 Americans died of overdose.
Biden also touched on his meeting with Speaker Kevin McCarthy over the debt ceiling, calling it a 'decent meeting' and saying McCarthy 'seems like a decent guy.'
'He says he wont raise taxes on anyone,' Biden said. 'He just wants to cut programs. So I said let's lay out our budgets.'
'I lay out mine on March 9 he should do the same thing.
'We should sit down, and it would be interesting to see what they want to cut and what their numbers add up to.'
The GOP has promised to release a budget in April.
'They're sure not acting like the party that cares about fiscal responsibility,' Biden said of Republicans.
'Under my predecessor congres voted three times to pay America's bills. They didn't throw country into crisis then, why should they do it now?'
In January Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen warned the country had reached its $31.4 trillion debt ceiling - the maximum amount of money it was allowed to spend to fund government programs and pay debts.
McCarthy and Biden are now at loggerheads as Republicans insist on budget cuts in exchange for raising the debt ceiling. President Biden is expected to release his budget next week.
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