‘Why Is There A Hold-Up?’: Biden Admin Grilled On Lack Of Executive Action On Southern Border

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During Thursday's White House press briefing, Karine Jean-Pierre was asked about Biden’s potential executive actions on the border.

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00:00 Yeah.

00:01 Yeah, thanks, Karim.

00:02 You said President Biden still hasn't made a decision on taking executive action on the

00:06 border.

00:07 Why is there a holdup on making a final decision on this?

00:10 What factors are being considered before the White House makes a call on this matter?

00:15 I mean, look, Joe, we spent a couple of months working with the Senate, Republicans and Democrats,

00:21 to make sure that we came up with a bipartisan solution to deal with the border, right, to

00:27 deal with the challenges at the border.

00:29 We believe that that was the best way.

00:31 We still believe that's the best way to move forward, because it would be tough, it would

00:35 be fair, and it's gotten support from places that you would never think, right?

00:41 The U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the Border Patrol Union.

00:44 That's important.

00:45 And so we believe that is the best way to move forward here.

00:48 We're always going to evaluate other options as it relates to an executive action, but

00:52 we are going to continue to be clear here.

00:54 The best way to move forward is to get that bipartisan proposal forward, and for, you

01:01 know, Republicans to not pick politics here, to pick majority of the American people.

01:06 I mean, is it a matter of there being concerns about opening the administration up to litigation

01:11 on this with executive action?

01:13 I mean, that's why we came up with the bipartisan proposal, right?

01:16 Because we believe that the way to actually deal with this is legislation.

01:20 The way to actually deal with this is to turn legislation into law, obviously.

01:25 And so that is the best way to move forward.

01:28 And no executive action is going to have the full resources that we need to get this done.

01:35 To get this done.

01:36 We're going to evaluate all of our options, as we've been saying, but we have to continue

01:41 to be really clear here.

01:43 Republicans need to act.

01:44 They need to move forward.

01:45 [BLANK_AUDIO]

‘Why Is There A Hold-Up?’: Biden Admin Grilled On Lack Of Executive Action On Southern Border

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