It is belaboring the obvious that President Joe Biden has a limited understanding of how the federal government works. These days it’s highly probable that Joe Biden needs help negotiating the complexities of a pudding cup.
On Monday, Joe Biden was talking – an act that may be counted on to generate baffling results – and indicated that in the aftermath of the second assassination attempt on former President Trump, the Secret Service needs “more help.”
President Biden said the United States Secret Service needs further assistance after former President Trump was the target of a second assassination attempt while golfing in Florida on Sunday.
“One thing I want to make clear is, the service needs more help. And I think Congress should respond to their need,” Biden told reporters Monday.
When questioned on what the Secret Service could need, the president responded, “They may decide whether they need more personnel or not.”
Uh, Joe – who’s in charge of the Secret Service?
Granted, additional funding above and beyond the USSS’s current budget has to originate in Congress – specifically, the House of Representatives, in which, according to the Constitution, all spending measures have to originate.
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But Joe Biden is in charge of the Department of Homeland Security, which is in charge of the Secret Service. Is Joe Biden implying that there is no discretionary budget that can be reallocated to the protection of a former President of the United States who has, within the last three months, had not one but two nutcases take potshots at him? It seems that Joe Biden, as president of the United States, should be able to pick up a phone, call the USSS, and say “I want Trump’s detail doubled. When? Today. Get it done.”
The president can give orders. The Executive Branch agencies are supposed to obey them. Joe Biden is expecting Congress to do something he could do with a phone call. But then, this is the typical Democrat response to any crisis: “We need to spend more money!”
Also, the answer isn’t necessarily just throwing more people at the problem. It may well be worth considering who is being assigned to primary protective details. We know the Secret Service, like so many government agencies and departments at all levels, is infested with the DEI virus. This can only lead to substandard people being assigned to important positions because they check off some DEI box.
None of this is intended to disparage either the USSS agents who surrounded Trump in the July attempt, interposing themselves as meat shields from additional incoming rounds, or the sharp-eyed USSS types who, on Sunday, saw a rifle barrel poking through a fence and engaged it. There may have been a cavalcade of screw-ups leading up to the events, but those people did their jobs.
But the need for them to do their jobs in this manner should never have been necessary. Joe Biden is evading the ultimate responsibility for all this by claiming that Congress has to do something when everyone involved in these events works for him.
When Democrat Harry Truman was president, his motto was “The buck stops here.” With Joe Biden, it’s “The buck stops anywhere else but here.”
If I were Donald Trump, I’d be hiring some private security.
