Fresh off election falsehoods, Republicans serve up a whopper about Biden Ashley Parker By the time President Biden’s aides gathered for their morning meeting on Monday, the juicy whopper of a mistruth making its way around the conservative ecosphere that Biden’s climate plan would significantly limit America’s hamburger consumption had officially entered mainstream public discourse. Biden’s team looked for an opportunity to quickly debunk the falsehood. White House Chief of Staff Ron Klain retweeted a CNN fact check titled, “No, Biden is not trying to force Americans to eat less red meat,” while several press aides tweeted a photo of a grinning Biden flipping burgers at a 2019 Iowa steak fry, along with the caption, “White House to the fact-challenged: where’s the beef?”
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Over the weekend, Republicans accused Joe Biden of trying to ban meat.
The claim, which you’ve heard from the likes of Donald Trump Jr. and Texas Gov. Greg Abbot, is that Biden’s climate plan will prohibit Americans from chowing down on burgers in an effort to limit greenhouse gas emissions associated with industrial agriculture.
On Fox News this Friday, former Trump economic adviser Larry Kudlow warned of a Fourth of July where “you can throw back a plant-based beer with your grilled Brussels sprouts” (Kudlow doesn’t seem to be aware of what beer is made from). Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) dubbed Biden “The Hamburglar.”
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It was an early sign that Biden intends to engage with the city he now calls home. There are hopes that both he and his vice-president, Kamala Harris, could provide a much-needed boost for cultural scene hit hard by the coronavirus pandemic and focus attention on the District of Columbia’s (DC’s) long campaign for statehood.
Dana, 34, born and raised in Washington, added:
“After so many small businesses have had such a rough year, to have them out and about is definitely going to drive business to places that desperately need it. It’s an amazing thing and the energy in the city is so different now that they’re in office. It is two thumbs up.”