Rep. Palmer responds to Biden’s State of the Union address
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Following President Biden’s State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress Tuesday night, Rep. Gary Palmer (AL-06) released the following statement:
“Tonight, we heard a speech that is entirely disconnected from reality and out of touch with the struggles that American people are facing. The truth is that President Biden has led the United States into crisis and disarray within just one year in office,” Palmer said. “Inflation is the highest it’s been in 40 years. Families across the country have been struggling to buy food and medicine and pay basic bills. Gas prices are soaring. People are illegally crossing our southern border in droves.”
“And amidst all of this, the Biden administration and Democrats in Congress have also held onto the political theater surrounding COVID for almost two years,” Palmer continued. “Children have been forced to wear masks in school long after we knew it was not only ineffective against COVID, but harmful to learning and social development. Vaccine mandates have forced many frontline workers and members of our military to choose between their livelihoods or service to our country and a shot they did not want.
“And, interestingly, COVID regulations in many Democrat-run cities and even on U.S. Capitol grounds have now been dropped, just in time for the State of the Union address. The ‘science’ hasn’t changed – the politics have. President Biden and Democrats in Congress are already trying to pretend they didn’t just spend two years championing shutdowns and masks and vaccine mandates, but we certainly won’t forget how these measures destroyed lives and livelihoods.”
Palmer added, “In addition to the domestic challenges we face, we now watch as Vladimir Putin’s forces destroy Ukraine. The sanctions imposed by Biden on Russia thus far will not deter Putin. He has dealt with sanctions before and factored that in before he launched the invasion. The people of Ukraine are fighting desperately to save their country and they need more than sanctions. They need weapons and they need the Biden Administration to unleash the full power of American energy production. In this battle to save Ukraine, perhaps the most powerful weapons in our arsenal of democracy are vast energy resources. At this point, this is a powerful weapon against Putin that will significantly reduce the revenues Putin needs to fund this war.”
Palmer concluded, “I spent time this past weekend in direct contact with Ukrainian leaders, including a member of their Parliament who has taken up a weapon and joined the resistance. He asked me to tell the Biden administration and members of Congress that they will not give up. He asked that we send weapons and that America increase our energy production to supply Europe and deny those markets to Russia so Putin can’t fund this invasion. He then asked me to share this message with every member of Congress and the Biden Administration. He said, ‘Every barrel of Russian oil and every cubic meter of Russian gas is stained with the blood of Ukraine.’
“The Biden administration and my Democrat colleagues will not utilize America’s vast energy resources in defense of Ukraine and the rest of Europe because it is contrary to their climate change agenda. In response, I would point out to them that in Europe, the climate has already changed. Instead of rising temperatures, we are witnessing a rising death toll as a climate of war now hangs over Europe. The courage and determination of the Ukrainian people in their struggle for their country has inspired the world. Their struggle will be recorded in history as the epitome of people who are determined to live in freedom. I can only hope President Biden and his Administration will step up before it’s too late.”