White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki was pressed by CBS News Radio reporter Steven Portnoy on Wednesday about the recent message that President Joe Biden conveyed to the American public regarding eviction moratoriums, saying that there are Americans who “are now disappointed that the president is signaling that he doesn’t respect the rule of law.”
“The President’s a lawyer, he spent 36 years in the Senate, was chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, spent eight years as vice president, half a year as president. He speaks often about democracy versus autocracy. He’s issuing or overseeing this order from the CDC, in the face of doubts about its constitutionality, which he seemed to echo yesterday,” Portnoy said. “There’s no inconsistency here? The president is, there are many people out there who say that the President is essentially not giving voice to the ethic that he campaigned on. He didn’t call Congress back, he asked Congress to act, it didn’t. How do you square all that?”
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