During Monday’s White House press briefing, Fisher questioned Psaki about the two statements delivered in the same afternoon.
“I’m still just a little bit confused about what changed between 1 p.m. on Friday and 4:30 p.m. on Friday to go from ‘We’re not raising the refugee cap,’ to ‘We are raising it by May 15, ” Fisher said. “What changed in those three-and-a-half hours?”
Psaki argued that the two statements were not in conflict.
“We never said we’re not raising the refugee cap,” Psaki said. “In the morning we said, actually, with the information we put out, once we reach 15,000, we will raise it. That was not accounted for.”
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Thursday’s White House press briefing quickly devolved into a predictable pattern of near emptiness in terms of answers from Press Secretary Jen Psaki, who ducked questions on issues such as the debunked Russian bounties story, the Johnson & Johnson coronavirus vaccine, and her party’s attempt to pack the Supreme Court.
Having to fill the role of what often seems like the only person speaking for the Biden administration, Psaki’s Q&A started with the AP’s Aamer Madhani and CNN’s Phil Mattingly trying get answers on the first matter regarding claims dating back to July that Russian intelligence had put out bounties on the heads of U.S. troops.
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