White House spokesman Jen Psaki said Friday, March 5, that the Biden administration is committed to working with Congress to limit the president’s authority to initiate war. Apollo.com commentator Wang Dulan analyzes this bizarre statement.
The “Pacific Deterrence Initiative” submitted to Congress by the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command recently shows that the U.S. military intends to build a missile network along the first island chain to confront the Chinese Communist Party.
The U.S. southern border is in crisis again!
Sleepless night! U.S. 1.9 trillion bailout case in the Senate narrowly passed.
New York Governor Cuomo is embroiled in two major scandals! The state legislature voted to revoke Governor Cuomo’s emergency executive powers.
White House: Biden will cooperate with Congress to limit the president’s power to wage war.
We are committed to working with Congress to ensure that the President’s authority to initiate war is replaced with a narrow and specific framework,” tweeted White House spokesman Leonardo Psaki on Friday. In this way, we can both prevent Americans from being threatened by terrorist groups and stop endless warfare.”
Photo: White House spokesman Puszaky
Democratic U.S. Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Va.) and Republican U.S. Sen. Todd Young (R-Mich.) reintroduced a bill Wednesday, March 3, to repeal the authority granted by Congress to the president to initiate war against Iraq from 1991 to 2002. The senators said they were troubled by Biden’s unilateral airstrikes against Iraq last week.
The Biden Administration‘s airstrikes in Syria last week showed that the administration, no matter which party is in charge, is prepared to continue to use the president’s authority to initiate war,” Kaine said. We in Congress have a responsibility to authorize new military actions and to repeal old war authorizations that are no longer needed. Congress should repeal the authority it granted to the U.S. government to initiate war against Iraq from 1991 to 2002 to prevent such authority from being abused in the future.”
Psaki tweeted Friday praising the bill and calling Kaine an expert on war powers, “This cross-party coalition he has built in Congress that wants to limit the president’s authority to initiate war is very aware of the constitutional rights Congress has.”
The Senate passed a similar resolution last year requiring former President Trump (R-Texas) to get congressional authorization before taking any military action against Iran, but the resolution was later vetoed by Trump.
Commentator Wang Dukran analyzed that Biden’s failure to hold press conferences and give the State of the Union address could verify that Biden’s cognitive ability has been in rapid decline. There has also been Harris’s appearance to meet with foreign leaders. Together with Apollo.com’s compiled report that Biden has been cut off from the microphone for speaking by the White House more than once, all signs indicate that Biden is the puppet. The White House’s stance today reinforces this judgment of mine. Restricting the president’s power to wage war is a complete distrust of the president and a weakening of the U.S. ability to deter foreign enemies, and could lead to a missed opportunity for war, resulting in a fiasco.
The U.S. intends to build a missile network along the first island chain to counter the Chinese Communist Party
The Nikkei Asian Review has learned that the United States will strengthen its conventional deterrence against the Chinese Communist Party by establishing a precision strike missile network along the “first island chain,” as part of a $27.4 billion expenditure considered for the Indo-Pacific Theater over the next six years.
These elements form the core proposal of the Pacific Deterrence Initiative submitted to Congress by the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command. The Nikkei Asian Review has seen the contents of the document.
The document says that “the greatest danger to the future of the United States remains the erosion of conventional deterrence” and that “without an effective and convincing conventional deterrence capability, China [the Chinese Communist Party] has the temerity to act in the region and globally to crowd out U.S. interests. As the military balance in the Indo-Pacific becomes more unfavorable, the United States faces the additional risk of emboldening an adversary to unilaterally attempt to change the status quo.”
Specifically, the Pacific Deterrence Initiative calls for an integrated joint force with a precision strike network along the first island chain west of the International Date Line, an integrated air and missile defense capability along the second island chain, and the deployment of decentralized forces to provide a stability-maintaining capability that can sustain operations for as long as necessary. operations.
According to the document, the plan is to “focus resources on critical military capabilities to deter China [the Chinese Communist Party]. The requirements outlined in the document are specifically designed to convince potential adversaries that any pre-emptive military action would be “costly” and that a combat force launch in a Time of crisis would likely be unsuccessful.
The first island chain consists of a group of islands including Taiwan, Okinawa and the Philippines, which the Chinese Communist Party sees as its first line of defense. The “second island chain” extends from southeastern Japan to Guam and southward to Indonesia.
“A core element of the Pacific Deterrence Initiative is “a highly survivable precision strike network along the first island chain. This would mean expanding the use of conventional land-based weapons by the U.S. military.
The U.S. strategy toward China has long been based on naval and air power. During the 1996 Taiwan Strait crisis, the U.S. sent aircraft carriers to project overwhelming military power as a deterrent.
The Chinese Communist Party now has a diverse arsenal of missiles designed to deter U.S. military advances within the second island chain. This makes the U.S. strategy of relying on naval and air power less viable.
The CCP possesses a large number of land-based, medium-range missiles. According to Pentagon statistics, the CCP has 1,250 such missiles. The United States, on the other hand, has none. The main reason for this difference is the INF Treaty, signed by the U.S. and the Soviet Union, which prohibits the U.S. from developing land-based missiles between 500 and 5,500 kilometers.
U.S. May Face New Border Crisis as Nearly 100,000 Arrests Made in February for Illegal Border Crossings
The U.S. southern border is in crisis again, as illegal immigrants continue to press the border under the Epidemic, with the highest number of illegal border crossers arrested in 15 years in February.
Reuters quoted sources as saying that nearly 100,000 illegal border crossers were arrested at the U.S.-Mexico border in February, compared with 78,000 illegal immigrants arrested in January, an increase of 28 percent; the highest arrests in February since 2006.
Of those unaccompanied children crossing the border illegally, border security agents arrested 5,700 in January, according to the U.S. Border Patrol, and data obtained by CBS News shows that U.S. government-run border shelters alone have taken in more than 7,000 unaccompanied child illegal immigrants in February.
Immediately after taking office, Biden reversed several Trump-era border and immigration policies, promising a more humane immigration system. Republicans have warned that the Biden administration’s approach is encouraging illegal immigration into the United States.
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) sent a letter to Biden on Friday (March 5) requesting a meeting to discuss the growing influx of illegal immigrant children at the U.S.-Mexico border.
Rep. Henry Cuellar (D) from Texas (28th District) warned the Biden administration that a crisis at the southern border could erupt within weeks, if not days, and that “doing nothing is not an option.”
New York State Assembly Votes to Revoke Governor Cuomo’s Emergency Executive Powers
On Friday afternoon, the New York State Senate voted 42-20 to pass Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins’ bill, “Bill S5357,” to revoke Governor Cuomo’s emergency executive authority during the outbreak. On Friday evening, the state House of Representatives also passed the bill by a vote of 107-43.
Photo: New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D).
Both the New York State House and Senate are dominated by Democrats, with a majority of Democratic lawmakers.
The bill would revoke Cuomo’s authority to issue new emergency executive orders, but allow executive orders already in effect to continue under legislative oversight, the state Senate statement said. After the House and Senate pass the bill, it needs to be signed into law by Governor Cuomo. And Cuomo 3 has said to the outside world that he will sign, accept the restrictions.
However, Republicans oppose the bill, saying it is not enough to limit Cuomo’s power. Republican State Assemblyman Mike Lawler told the New York Post, “The bill would only enhance the governor’s executive emergency powers and allow the executive order to be continued for another year.”
Cuomo is currently embroiled in two major scandals: the cover-up of nursing Home deaths and sexual harassment. Many Democrats have called for Cuomo’s resignation, which Cuomo has refused.
The first of these is the “All-nighter”. The 1.9 trillion dollar bailout case was narrowly defeated in the Senate
On March 6, the U.S. Senate passed Biden’s $1.9 trillion bailout bill by 50:49 after an all-night debate. The Democratic initiative for a $15-an-hour minimum wage failed to pass, and Republicans criticized the bill as too large.
Fox News reports that after 27 hours of continuous debate and contention, the bailout bill narrowly passed the Senate, with all Democratic lawmakers voting in favor and Republican Senator Sullivan absent from the vote because he had to travel to Alaska for his father-in-law’s funeral. The House will vote next Tuesday, after which it awaits Biden’s signature on his first major piece of legislation since taking office.
Democrats say the legislation will help save the economy and end a pandemic that has killed 520,000 Americans.
Republicans, on the other hand, have criticized the legislation as too big and a Democratic wish list. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said before the vote that “the Senate has never spent $2 trillion in a more arbitrary way or through less rigorous procedures.”
Senate Majority Leader Schumer emphasized that the legislation makes good on the promise Democrats made to the American people in the 2020 election to save the country from the depths of the pandemic and recession. The bill would provide another round of $1,400 checks, expand unemployment benefits by $300 a week and provide more Food, child care and rent to help struggling Americans.
“It’s been a long day, a long night, a long year. But a new day has dawned.” Schumer said, “We’re telling the American people that help is on the way.”
Passage of the bill didn’t go too smoothly, with Kamala Harris (D-N.Y.) casting the key vote to initiate debate Thursday afternoon. That was followed by Republican Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Texas), who asked the Senate clerk to read the 628-page legislation aloud before debate.
The Senate clerk then spent 10 hours and 44 minutes reading the bill until 2:04 a.m. Friday, when senators returned to work Friday morning to begin “voting” on a series of amendments to the bill. But that work was delayed for nearly 12 hours when Democrats needed to vote on key amendments to support unemployment benefits.
Democrat Bernie Sanders was the first senator to propose an amendment to raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour, and the vote around the amendment took a record 11 hours and 50 minutes until 11 p.m. Friday night. Ultimately, the amendment failed to pass because eight Democratic senators joined Republicans in opposing it. Republicans argued that raising the minimum hourly wage could cause massive job losses.
Finally, with the support of Democratic Senator Joe Manchin, Democrats passed an amendment overnight, 50-49, to update the terms of the expanded unemployment insurance. Weekly unemployment benefits would be reduced to $300 compared to the previous $400, with assistance extending through Sept. 6, longer than the House version on Aug. 29. The first $10,200 of household income below $150,000 would also be tax-free.
The all-night debate left lawmakers feeling exhausted. Nonetheless, Republicans offered a series of amendments to try to curb several expenditures in the bill, but with little success.
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