During his speech on Monday night commemorating the Fourth of July, President Joe Biden expressed sympathy to Americans who support abortion rights and emphasized that the United States has always been a “work in progress.”
The president stated that there has been cause to believe that our nation is regressing and that freedom is being curtailed recently. “Those liberties we believed to be safeguarded no longer are,”
Standing next to First Lady Jill Biden on the South Lawn, Biden addressed military families, saying, “I know it may be exhausting and unnerving.
But tonight, I want to assure you that we will overcome everything.
The worst of our past has occasionally reached out and tugged us back, Biden noted, adding that freedoms are “under assault” in the country’s 245-year existence.
The historic 1973 verdict Roe v. Wade was overturned ten days ago by the conservative-leaning Supreme Court, which also pulled down federal abortion rights.
Additionally, Biden appeared to make reference to the earlier that day Fourth of July parade shooting in Highland Park, Illinois.
The president said, “You all heard about what happened today.”
Then he added, “And each day we are reminded that nothing about our democracy, nothing about our way of life, is guaranteed, and that we must fight for it, protect it.”
Not all of the president’s words were depressing.
Despite all the difficulties, he attempted to praise the economy, claiming that it was the strongest in the world.
He also cited the pandemic’s advancements.
He remarked, “Look how far we’ve come in restoring our way of life from the pandemic.”
He reminded them that they might now meet at the White House once more.
The Delta variation of COVID-19 halted progress shortly after Biden attended a Fourth of July party at the White House the previous year as well.
The president and first lady returned to Washington on Monday morning accompanied with son Hunter, his wife Melissa, and infant Beau.
They were going back to Camp David.
The first family arrived as police searched for the shooter who opened fire in Highland Park, killing at least six people.
In a statement issued immediately after landing, the president referred to the shooting as “senseless” and stated that there was still “more work” to be done regarding gun legislation.
On this Independence Day, he remarked, “Jill and I are horrified by the senseless gun violence that has once again torn a community in America apart.”
“As always, we appreciate the assistance of the law enforcement and first responders.” I have spoken with Mayor Rotering and Governor Pritzker, and I have promised their cities the full support of the federal government.
In order to help in the urgent hunt for the shooter, who is still at large at this time, I also requested Federal law enforcement.
I will attentively watch as we learn more about those whose lives have been lost and pray for those who are in the hospital with severe injuries. Community members should heed the advice of local leadership.
“I recently signed into law the first significant piece of bipartisan legislation on gun control in in thirty years, which includes measures that will save lives.”
However, there is still a lot of work to be done, and I won’t give up on the epidemic of gun violence.
Hunter Biden’s attendance coincides with top House Republicans’ threats to look into his business practices if they get control of the chamber, notably House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy.
McCarthy, along with Reps. Jim Jordan and James Comer, claimed in a July 1 op-ed for The New York Post that the investigation by Congressional Republicans had revealed that “Biden family members used their connections with Joe to enrich themselves through expectations of access and promises about what a Biden administration might do.”
The three GOP congressmen declared that “a Republican majority will be committed to exposing the facts that the Democrats, Big Tech, and legacy media have repressed.”
Republicans in Congress have made Hunter Biden a priority target because of his business dealings in China and the Ukraine while his father was vice president.
After recent travels to Wilmington and Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, the president departed on Friday to spend the weekend with his family at Camp David.
The president urged Americans to celebrate the “goodness” of the country on Monday morning to mark the Fourth.
The president stated, “The Fourth of July is a hallowed day in our society; it’s a time to honor the goodness of our nation, the only nation on Earth founded on an idea: that all people are created equal.”
Make no mistake, he said, “our finest days are yet ahead of us.”
The timing of Biden’s post coincided with the ‘Airmageddon’-like pandemonium that many travelers experienced over the holiday weekend due to irritating delays and airline cancellations.
Aside from raising the cost of having a BBQ, inflation has increased the cost of driving.
The president has paid the price for polling-inflation, with a Real Clear Politics approval rating of 38.4% on average.
In the midst of reports of a second mass shooting, which left at least six people dead at a Fourth of July parade in the Chicago suburb of Highland Park, Biden was also making his way back to the White House.