U.S. Politics

[Rick Plant]

President Biden
@POTUS 

"We just learned that unemployment is now down to 3.6% and, in March, our economy created 431,000 jobs.
 
This is a historic recovery — Americans are back at work.

Today, we learned our economy created 431,000 jobs in March. And we learned that in January and February, the economy created about 100,000 more jobs than we previously thought.

That means over the last three months, the economy created more than a half-million jobs a month.

Over the course of my presidency, our economy has now created 7.9 million jobs. 
 
More jobs created over the first 14 months of any presidency, in any term, ever.

In March, the unemployment rate fell to 3.6%.
 
Down from 6.4% when I took office.
 
The fastest decline in unemployment at the start of a president’s term ever recorded.

There have been only three months in the last 50 years where the unemployment rate in America was lower than it is now.

What this means is clear: Americans are back to work."

Watch: https://twitter.com/POTUS/status/1510021375490199559

[Rick Plant]

The White House
@WhiteHouse

Economy Update: This morning we learned that unemployment is down to 3.6% and the economy created 431,000 jobs in March. Here’s a closer look at our economic recovery, and what’s next:

First, jobs: @POTUS’s first year in office was the largest year of job growth in American history. This was a direct result of the American Rescue Plan and other actions that overcame an ongoing global pandemic. The trend is continuing.



This recovery and growth was not inevitable – we can see that by comparing our economic growth and money in people’s bank accounts to other major economies. The U.S. was the first major advanced economy to get to stronger levels than before the pandemic.



The jobs recovery under @POTUS is unprecedented. Not only are initial unemployment claims, meaning people newly out of work, down near historic lows, but the total people on unemployment benefits is at its lowest level since 1969.



Throughout all of this, @POTUS has managed to actually reduce the deficit as well. The deficit fell by over $350 billion last year and is on track to fall by $1.3 trillion this year.



@POTUS is doing everything in his power to lower costs at home by:
- Addressing short-term supply chain issues
- Increasing oil supply
- Pushing for lower prescription drug prices, child care costs, and more
- Promoting competition

https://twitter.com/WhiteHouse/status/1509936784334983170

[Rick Plant]

The United States is currently reporting 16,138 coronavirus hospitalizations, the lowest mark since reporting began in July 2020, according to data from @CNN and the Department of Health and Human Services.

U.S. Covid hospitalizations hit new low, falling 32 percent in the last two weeks

Covid hospitalizations are at their lowest levels since the U.S. began keeping records at the start of the pandemic, according to an NBC News analysis of data from the Department of Health and Human Services.

Average hospitalizations fell to 16,760, lower than the previous low of 16,808, set before the delta wave in June. Hospitalization figures from the past few days could change as hospitals finalize numbers.

Since March 2020, when HHS began recording hospitalizations, as many as 159,000 people have been hospitalized in a day with Covid, a peak that was set Jan. 20 during the omicron surge. On average, the country has reported 63,000 hospitalizations a day.

In the past two weeks, hospitalizations have fallen by 32 percent, from an average of 24,595 to 16,760.

President Joe Biden declared in his State of the Union address this month that “Covid-19 need no longer control our lives.”

https://www.nbcnews.com/data-graphics/covid-19-hospitalizations-country-hit-new-low-march-31-rcna22441


Coronavirus vaccine are free and accessible thanks to President Biden’s historic vaccination campaign. The American Rescue Plan have saved more than 1 million American lives and will continue to save countless more.

Go to http://covid.gov to find a free vaccine near you!

[Rick Plant]

Thursday night, the House passed the Affordable Insulin Now Act. This is a tremendous moment in American health care history and it's extremely disappointing that only 12 Republicans voted in favor of capping the cost of insulin at $35. The overwhelming majority of House Republicans couldn’t care less about their diabetic constituents who have to ration medicine to pay for food and rent. They will remember this vote in November when Republicans voted "no" to cap outrageous insulin prices.

[Richard Smith]

More nonsense.

The only indictments that will be coming is from the previous criminal regime.

Jen made perfectly clear when she took the job as Press Secretary that she would only stay on until the end of December 2021 because she has 2 small children. She stayed on 4 months longer. Criminal Donald went through 4-5 press secretaries in 4 years. And CBS and CNN hired right wing Trump hacks.       

With record job creation and a booming economy, nobody will be voting for a Republican especially when they voted against their own diabetic voters to cap insulin prices at $35. Republicans do not care.   

White House press secretary Jen Psaki says she'll resign next year when it's 'time for somebody else to have this job'

Psaki says she accepted the job after agreeing with the transition team to serve for about a year.

May 7, 2021

https://www.businessinsider.com/jen-psaki-step-down-as-biden-press-secretary-next-year-2021-5

Hunter is going down soon.  His financial records confirm that Old Joe's brother and wife are also implicated.  So is the "big guy" with his cut but the corrupt DOJ will not go that far.  They like their cushy jobs.  Peppermint Patty is getting out of Dodge before the posse comes to carry them all away to the slammer.  She also knows that the disasters unfolding will only get worse under Biden's incompetence and cognitive impairment culminating in a republican tsunami in the mid term elections.   Rats have a good sense of self preservation.  The ship is sinking faster than the Titanic.

[Rick Plant]

The one of the main faces of the Republican party, Madison Cawthorn says his GOP colleagues go to 'cocaine parties' and Roger Stone said it's true. The GOP is a mess.

https://thehill.com/homenews/media/599987-cawthorn-says-people-in-dc-have-invited-to-orgy-done-cocaine-in-front-of-him/

 

[Rick Plant]

92% of House Republicans voted AGAINST lowering the cost of insulin.

193 House Republicans vote to keep insulin prices high

Only 12 Republicans in the House of Representatives joined all Democrats to vote for the Affordable Insulin Now Act.

Nearly all House Republicans on Thursday night voted against a bill that would dramatically lower the cost of insulin, the life-saving diabetes drug that has skyrocketed in price in recent years.

The House passed the Affordable Insulin Now Act by a vote of 232-193, with every Democrat and just 12 Republicans voting for the bill. If enacted, the bill would cap the price for a month supply of the drug at $35, or 25% of the negotiated insurance price.

According to the website GoodRx Health, the average price for insulin spiked by 54% between 2014 and 2019, an increase that's led to insulin rationing, a dangerous and sometimes deadly tactic in which diabetics use less insulin than needed in order to avoid depleting their supply of the expensive drug.

"Insulin prices are outrageous! Diabetics, like me, pay almost $100 for a unit that costs $12 in Canada. It causes some to ration or skip days to survive," Rep. Donald Payne Jr. (D-NJ) tweeted. "Today, I voted for a bill to cap insulin prices at $35 per month. No one should have to choose between food or medicine!"

Republicans condemned the bill as government interference in health care.

"Today it's the government fixing the price of insulin. What's next?" Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) said during debate on the bill. "Gas? Food? History tells us that price-fixing doesn't work."

Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL), while calling the legislation "another big government bill that claims to serve the American people by subverting basic economic theory with the proposed codification of government price controls," blamed the rising cost of insulin on increased demand due to Americans getting fatter.

"The number of diabetes cases in the U.S. has nearly doubled. The demand for insulin has increased and the requisite price increase has followed suit. In other words, the price of insulin increases as waistlines increase," Gaetz tweeted.

However, polling finds that voters support capping the cost of the drug.

A Data for Progress survey in November 2021 found that 87% support capping the cost of insulin at $35 per month.

Provisions that would have lowered prescription drug prices were included in President Joe Biden's Build Back Better framework, which stalled in the Senate.

It's unclear whether the standalone insulin bill can pass in the Senate.

Democrats would need to convince 10 Republicans to allow the bill to come up for a vote to reach the 60-vote threshold needed to stop a filibuster of it.

https://americanindependent.com/affordable-insulin-now-act-build-back-better-republicans-democrats-house-representatives-prices/