A testy Joe Biden complained about the delay for his $60 billion giveaway to Ukraine which is currently stalled in the House of Representatives as lawmakers enjoy a two-week recess.
On Friday, the crotchety Democrat took a question from a reporter during his remarks on the death of Russian opposition figure Alexei Navalny, a fierce critic of Vladimir Putin who died in the Arctic penal colony where he was imprisoned.
Asked about the money for Ukraine and the U.S.-backed NATO proxy war on Russia, Biden bemoaned the idea that House lawmakers could go on vacation, a comment from a man who has spent a sizable chunk of his presidency away from the White House with much of it being spent at his two Delaware homes, including one at Rehoboth Beach.
President Biden: It’s about time House Republicans stepped up instead of going on a two week vacation. Two weeks. What are they thinking? My God. This is outrageous pic.twitter.com/ohMW2P2SLu
— Biden-Harris HQ (@BidenHQ) February 16, 2024
“No, but it’s about time they step up, don’t you think?” Biden said when asked about whether he could get ammo into the hands of Ukraine without help from Congress.
“Instead of going on a two-week vacation. Two weeks, walking away. Two weeks?” Biden shouted. “What are they thinking? My God, this is bizarre, and it’s just reinforcing, and it’s just reinforcing all the concern and, and almost I won’t say panic, but real concern about the United States being a reliable ally. This is outrageous.”
While Congress does take an excessive amount of vacation on the taxpayer dime, the vacationer-in-chief is hardly the one to be griping about it and X users pounced on his hypocritical remarks.
Wait — Biden, the man who has spent more of his term on vacation than working and has been MIA on vacay during nearly every major event of the past. years — is mad that the House is out for two weeks?
— Dana Loesch (@DLoesch) February 16, 2024
Says the man spending 40% of his Presidency ON VACATION!
Hypocrite.
— AnnaV (@perchance99) February 16, 2024
He was in Congress for like 80 years. He’s acting like Congress taking recess is something new that started during his presidency.
— Strongarm Zed (@StrongarmZed) February 16, 2024
You may want to watch those vacation comments. pic.twitter.com/ZDnuIm7oh2
— Mike (@mrmwisc) February 16, 2024
Says the man who vacations most weeks.
— Scottiegrrl (@Scottiegrrl) February 16, 2024
I would bet money that he will be back on vacation within the next couple days.
— Scott (@akmoss2010) February 16, 2024
@POTUS Your vacation time supercedes probably anyone in the entire world. I’m just glad it’s Winter so we don’t have to see you splayed out like a corpse at the beach or watching your paley pasty self feebly fighting with your chair.
Don’t you have enough to worry about…— StormyBotK (@KaraMar111) February 16, 2024
Clearly they should work while you go to the beaches of Delaware every other week.
— GP (@GP_USMCVet) February 16, 2024
That’s a laughable statement coming from the Vacation King.
— Keith Moehring (@KeithM1963) February 16, 2024
According to the New York Post which examined public records, Biden spent 138 days relaxing at “either one of his Delaware residences, a posh vacation site or Camp David” in 2023, 37 percent of the year. The outlet had previously reported that he has spent 40 percent of his entire presidency on vacation.
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