Biden-Harris Cabinet Secretary Claims ‘Punishing Schedule’ Makes It Impossible For Kamala To Answer Questions

'She only has a few weeks to do everything'

‘Not The Right Way To Do It:’ Harris Surrogate Trashes Tax Proposal She Supports On CNBC

'I don’t think that that’s what you want for a startup ecosystem'

‘Never Gonna Happen’: CNBC Anchors Tag Team Harris Advisor After He Claims Attacks On Tax Plan Are ‘Funny’

'It's probably unconstitutional'

‘It Is Deliberate’: Ted Cruz Says TikTok ‘Pushing Pro-Hamas Propaganda’

'I think that is designed by the Chinese government'

CNBC anchor hits top House Democrat with reality check about what 'bipartisan' actually means — and what it doesn't mean



CNBC anchor Joe Kernen was forced on Friday to define for House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D) the meaning of "bipartisan."

Appearing on CNBC's "Squawk Box," the No.1 House Democrat repeatedly blamed "extreme MAGA Republicans" for the likely government shutdown.

Jeffries claimed House Republicans are adopting a "my way or the highway" approach on "every issue." Even on the issue of increased funding for border security, Jeffries said President Joe Biden has made a proposal, but claimed House Republicans "haven't even considered" it.

In response, Kernen noted that funding is unlikely to alleviate problems at the border — and then he scolded Jeffries on what "bipartisan" actually means.

"Funding is not helping the border," Kernen said. "There needs to be a policy change. That's all Speaker McCarthy said, 'Let's actually do it in a bipartisan way and get some actual policy there. We're doing plenty with Ukraine. Get some actual policy and some additional funding,' and I'll bet you he would eventually take his chances with keeping his speakership if he felt like there was a real change in policy, as well as funding that the Senate put in an amendment. I think you would get it done.

"But that's bipartisan," Kernen explained. "Bipartisan doesn't mean just everything that the Democrats want becomes law. That's not what bipartisan is."

House Minority Leader Jeffries: House Dems would back Senate's funding bill to avoid shutdown www.youtube.com

Kernen also took issue with Jeffries suggesting only a handful of Republicans do not fall into the category of "extreme MAGA Republicans."

"You said maybe they're six normal ones. You seem to say they're six normal and, I don't know, 250 'extreme MAGA' ones. That's, that's not the way it is. There are probably eight or nine that fit that description, 'extreme MAGA,'" Kernen said.

"There's no point in this interview or at any other point in which I have actually commented on the number of Republicans who fall into a particular category," Jeffries objected.

But that's not true.

Earlier in the interview, Jeffries said of a potential deal to keep the government open, "Certainly there are six traditional Republicans, six reasonable Republicans willing to avoid a catastrophic government shutdown."

Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

CNBC anchor gets frank with Biden's top economic adviser about the truth on 'Bidenomics': 'It's not working'



CNBC anchor Joe Kernen confronted a top Biden adviser on Tuesday over the administration's failing "Bidenomics" message.

The president's top economic adviser, Jared Bernstein, went on "Squawk Box" and painted a rosy picture about the economy. He claimed that "Bidenomics in action is helping, it's working, it's helping to build the economy from the bottom up and the middle out."

It's good rhetoric, no doubt. But Kernen was not buying it.

Kernen pointed to stories in the Wall Street Journal and New York Post detailing Biden's economic woes. Specifically, he brought attention to Biden's falsehood that he has cut the deficit "when, in fact, it's going to be $2 trillion — double last year — and the cuts that he did make are based on cutting from the pandemic level."

"So, it's kind of disingenuous," Kernen declared. "All that taken together, it leaves a very sour case in most people's mouths."

Kernen even took issue with Bernstein specifically, who, according to the CNBC host, likes to claim that Americans are "more optimistic" about the economy if you ask them individually.

"But," Kernen countered, "only one-third consistently of Americans buy into your contention that Bidenomics is working. So maybe you need to come on every day because it's not working, your message."

In response, Bernstein claimed he is not "discounting" poll data, but said they only show American sentiment from "30 or 40,000 feet up."

Meanwhile, Bernstein listed only two metrics to support his claim: that Americans support Biden's intervention on pharmaceuticals and they support providing manufacturing companies tax incentives to create more jobs, a rather risk-free policy that most Americans would support, no matter who implemented it.

"So, I think it's an inaccurate narrative to declare that somehow Bidenomics isn't working or that it's not favorably received by people when you drill down into what it actually is," he contended.

Notably, Bernstein did not provide data on inflation, wages, employment data, the deficit, or any other meaningful economic metric to support his claim. On the other hand, the latest Wall Street Journal poll definitively showed that Americans disapprove of Biden's handling of the economy.

An inaccurate narrative to declare Bidenomics not working: CEA Chair Jared Bernstein youtu.be

Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!