Reporter: Eric Adams, the New York mayor, is saying about these migrants in New York City, 'any plan that does not include stopping the flow at the border is a failed plan', so why aren't you guys stopping the flow at the border?

Jean-Pierre: We are stopping the flow at the border. What [Biden] has been able to do on his own without the help of republicans in congress, something he had to do on his own, again, because republicans refuse to give the funding necessary to deal with the broken immigration system…[Biden] has put a plan that is indeed stopping, slowing down the flow of unlawful migration…without the help of republicans.

Mr. Biden: I don't think anybody can deny the impact of a climate crisis anymore. Just look around. Historic floods, I mean historic floods, more intense droughts, extreme heat, significant wildfires have caused significant damage like we've never seen before. Not only throughout the Hawaiian Islands..but in Canada and other parts of the world. We've never seen this much fire.

[translation = we've never had to start this many fires before in order to push our agenda]

Mr. Biden: Today, I'm announcing that ninety-five million dollars from the bi-partisan infrastructure law is on the way to Hawaii to harden the ground power. Harden the grid…funding will be used for stronger and better poles…it means burying the lines that transmit the electricity underground. It means clearing trees and brush around these wires. And this money is going to pay for technology, technology like smart meters, that can tell you where the problem actually is when the line goes down.

Biden says he supports both the physical hardening of power infrastructure, as well as 'shutting off the power' to customers during 'high wind incidents'.

Article is from 2017, but interesting because according to Biden, they are now going to 'upgrade the grid' in Maui with smart meters.

"Maui’s electric utility has taken an extraordinary step in proposing to only provide new smart meters to customers who request them. The decision is likely the first time that a utility anywhere in the nation has adopted such a radical proposal. Across the United States, people have either been forced to accept a smart meter replacement for their analog meter, or pay an “opt-out” fee, in places like California, of more than $400, to not take the forced “upgrade.” Maui environmental health educator Debra Greene hailed the decision as a major victory for consumers who had protested smart meter deployment. “It’s huge,” she says. “I want to believe we had an impact. Smart meters represent a real hazard and this significant development is the first incident we know of where a state’s major utility has changed policy to opt in. It’s unprecedented in the United States.”

“The only real purpose of smart meters is to create additional revenue streams for utilities because they collect extraordinary amounts of data about what people are doing inside their homes that the utility can turn around and sell.”

http://mauiindependent.org/smart-meter-victory-maui-utility-consumers/