Biden Is Failing Americans

BIDEN HAS WEAKENED AMERICA

Tomorrow, Biden heads to Philadelphia for his first rally since launching his reelection bid nearly two months ago.
- While Biden has been absent from the campaign trail, he has found time to repeatedly go on vacation.
- Biden’s incessant vacationing outpaces virtually every other president in modern history.
- This event isn’t even technically a Biden campaign rally – it’s a DNC event heavily advertised by the taxpayer-funded White House.
Now that Biden is emerging from hiding, voters will hear his second term agenda to “finish the job” and double down on the failures and crises he has caused.
- Americans are poorer, cities are less safe, energy is more expensive, the border is overrun, and our enemies are emboldened with Biden as president.
- 78 percent of Americans believe things in this country are headed in the wrong direction and 59 percent disapprove of the way Biden is handling his job according to a recent AP-NORC poll.
In contrast, Republicans offer an agenda to ensure prosperity, security, and freedom for all Americans.

BIDEN’S ECONOMY IS FAILING

In Biden’s America, savingsare down, incomes are down, and economic confidence is down.
Biden’s $1.9 trillion “stimulus” sent inflation soaring, with Americans forced to pay higher prices for virtually everything.
- Americans have lost over $10,000 on average paying for the increased cost of living since Biden took office.
- Real weekly wages have fallen every month since Biden and Democrats passed their wasteful $1.9 trillion "stimulus."
Americans are increasingly borrowing to cover daily expenses, finding their regular income is no longer enough to make ends meet.
- Credit card balances are now at an all-time high.
America’s outlook on retirement is now at an 11-year low, with one in four Americans cutting back on retirement savings.
Biden wants to make inflation even worse – most recently introducing his $6.9 trillion budget chock full of wasteful spending and higher taxes.

CRIME IS SOARING IN BIDEN’S AMERICA

Biden’s policies and rhetoric have enabled criminals – with crime spiking as a result.
- Biden has failed to stand up to the radicals in his own party who pushed defunding the police and has surrounded himself with an administration full of defund the police activists.
- In 2022, Biden signed an executive orderthat limited law enforcement and made it “harder for police to do their jobs.”
- In 2023, Biden vetoed legislation that would have overturned progressive policies from the D.C. Council that are hamstringing District officers and placing them in unsafe situations.
Last year, at least nine cities, seven of which are Democrat-run, saw record homicides.
- In Biden’s first year, at least 12 major U.S. cities – all Democrat-run – set new homicide records.
Police departments are facing historic staffing crises as police officers have become fed up with the lack of support.
Americans are feeling increasingly less safe, with 81 percent of Americans concerned about the increase in crime according to a recent Fox News poll.
- More than half of Americans disapprove of the way Biden is handling the issue of crime according to an Economist/YouGov poll.

ENERGY IS MORE EXPENSIVE UNDER BIDEN

Biden has wreaked havoc on American energy independence after promising to “eliminate” oil and natural gas.
- Biden halted oil and gas leases on federal lands, cancelled the Keystone XL Pipeline, and proposed billions in new taxes on the U.S. fossil fuel industry.
- Under Biden’s leadership, all 50 states hit new record high gas prices.
Instead of unleashing American energy producers, Biden depleted 40 percent of the U.S. Strategic Petroleum reserve, bringing it to its lowest level in four decades.
Americans are paying the price for Biden’s anti-American energy agenda.
- On average, Americans have lost over $2,250 paying increased energy costs since Biden took office.
- Gas prices are up more than $1 per gallon than when Biden took office, and he has threatened to veto bills to increase domestic energy production, reform permitting processes, and unleash American energy.
- Nearly 20 million households are behind on their utility bills.

BIDEN’S BORDER POLICIES CREATED AN IMMIGRATION CRISIS

Biden's failed policies have created the current crisis at the southern border.
- In Biden's first 100 days, he took more than 94 executive actions on immigration, including halting construction of the border wall and ending the successful "Remain in Mexico" policy.
Under Biden’s leadership, illegal immigrants and deadly drugs like fentanyl have flooded across the border.
Including "gotaways," there have now been more than 6 million illegal border crossings.
Since Biden took office, nearly 19 tons of fentanyl have crossed the southern border, enough to kill6 billion people.
- Fentanyl is now the leading cause of death for Americans age 18 to 45, with the number killed by the drug up 94 percent since 2019.
Biden’s open border agenda has created a humanitarian crisis, with last year being the deadliest year for migrants on record.
The Biden administration lost track of at least 150,000 illegal immigrants during the summer of 2021.
Homeland Security Investigations estimates that Mexican cartels are now making $13 billion a year smuggling illegal immigrants into the U.S., 26 times what they made in 2018.

BIDEN HAS FAILED ON FOREIGN POLICY

Since taking office, the Biden administration has made America less safe, emboldened our enemies, made our allies question our reliability, and made America dependent on foreign oil again.
- Biden has spent his presidency crushing America’s military strength while strengthening dangerous regimes.
- Biden’s disastrous energy policies have unnecessarily driven the U.S. to its enemies for oil while his failed foreign policy agenda has damaged America’s credibility with allies.
Under Biden, the Taliban have a safe haven in Afghanistan again, Putin invaded Ukraine, China is menacing Taiwan, and Iran is directing assassination attempts on American soil against former U.S. officials.
- Biden’s disastrous Afghanistan withdrawal left hundreds of Americans stranded behind enemy lines for months and resulted in the deaths of 13 U.S. service members.
- Biden has refused to confront the Chinese Communist Party, giving the CCP a pass on their COVID obstruction, letting a spy balloon gather intelligence from sensitive military sites, and promoting the use of the CCP spyware app TikTok.
The U.S. military has faced unprecedented recruiting difficulties under Biden, partially due to his administration’s commitment to “woke policies” in the military.
As former Defense Secretary Bob Gates said, Biden “has been wrong on nearly every major foreign policy and national security issue over the past four decades.”

BIDEN IS PUTTING PARENTS AND STUDENTS LAST

Biden has been working to undermine parents’ rights since day one, instead taking his marching orders from teachers’ unions.
- Biden’s Department of Justice targeted concerned and involved parents as “domestic terrorists.”
- Biden slow walked reopening school for months, even letting teachers’ union bosses and major campaign funders dictate CDC guidance.
  - National test results in elementary school math and reading have plummeted to levels we have not seen in more than two decades.
The Biden administration has failed to expand school choice for those who need it the most.
Biden supports "racial preferences" in school admissions, which effectively allows discrimination against Asian American students.
Biden wants to cancel $10,000 in student debt per borrower – a handout to the rich that would cost taxpayers billions and worsen inflation.