President Biden laughed off a claim by Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene that he “killed” a mother’s two sons who overdosed on fentanyl in 2020 because they died during the Trump administration.
Greene claimed on Tuesday that Rebecca Kiessling’s 18- and 20-year-old sons, Kyler and Caleb died as a result of the Biden administration’s policies, and tweeted a clip of the distraught mother testifying before the House Homeland Security Committee.
Kiessling said her sons had thought they were taking a normal painkiller, but it was laced with fentanyl.
But Biden said with a chuckle on Wednesday night that the fentanyl they took “came during the last administration.”
The president criticized the Georgia Republican, claiming he would drive people out of the GOP en masse in a speech at the annual House Democratic retreat in Baltimore.
President Biden laughed off a claim by Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene that he “killed” a mother’s two sons who died from fentanyl in 2020, even if they died during the Trump administration
He also told Democrats to drive home how much they accomplished legislatively in the last Congress and told them to keep trying to work across the aisle with those who aren’t “MAGA Republicans.” are.
As Democrats huddled to hear from the top about their strategy to challenge GOP control in the House and take back power in 2024, Biden urged them to continue their track record.
‘People, you know how much we’ve already done. Much of the country still doesn’t know,” he said.
He praised the bipartisan infrastructure bill passed last Congress, saying, “If we did nothing but implement what we already passed and let people know we did it for them, we win.”
But Biden said there were still “unfinished business,” citing immigration reform, police reform and gun control.
MAGA Republicans won’t run for most of these things. That leaves many Republicans left. Republicans can help win significant majorities on some of these issues,” he said.
“A little bit more of — a few more Marjorie Taylor Greene, you’ll have a lot of Republicans running our way,” Biden said. ‘Is not she Lovely?’
“She was very specific when she told a mother, a mother who lost two children to fentanyl, that I killed her sons. The interesting thing is that fentanyl they took came during the last administration,” Biden said with a chuckle.
“I don’t want to get into it,” he added.
Hear this mother, who lost two children to fentanyl poisoning, tell the truth about the murders of both her sons because of the Biden administration’s refusal to secure our border and prevent the cartels from killing Americans every day with Chinese fentanyl Greene tweeted.
“A little bit more of — a few more Marjorie Taylor Greene, you’ll have a lot of Republicans running our way,” Biden said. ‘Is not she Lovely?’
But the sons died on July 29, 2020, Kiessling said, more than five months before Donald Trump left office.
Fentanyl deaths in the US have been rising since the 2010s, peaking during Covid-19 and continuing to rise under Biden’s presidency.
In 2022, 107,000 Americans will die of drug overdose.
Biden also addressed his meeting with debt ceiling speaker Kevin McCarthy, calling it a “decent meeting” and saying McCarthy “seems like a decent guy.”
“He says he won’t tax anyone,” Biden said. “He just wants to cancel programs. So I said let’s make up our budgets.’
“I’m putting mine down on March 9, he should do the same.
“We need to sit down, and it would be interesting to see what they want to cut and what their numbers yield.”
The GOP has promised to release a budget in April.
“They certainly don’t act like the party that cares about fiscal responsibility,” Biden said of the Republicans.
“Under my predecessor, Congress voted three times to pay America’s bills. They didn’t put the country in crisis then, why should they do that now?’
In January, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen warned that the country had reached its $31.4 trillion debt ceiling — the maximum amount it could spend to fund government programs and pay down debt.
McCarthy and Biden are now at odds as Republicans push for spending cuts in exchange for raising the debt ceiling. President Biden is expected to release his budget next week.
