CNN anchor Kaitlan Collins tried on Tuesday to lecture a pro-life doctor and lawyer about the purported safety of abortion pills, but she ended up receiving an on-air fact-check.
The Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Food and Drug Administration v. Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine on Tuesday. The case challenges the FDA's broad approval of mifepristone — one of the pills most commonly used in medical abortions — and the FDA's expanded access to the medication in 2016 and 2021.
Dr. Christina Francis, an ob-gyn and plaintiff in the case, and Alliance Defending Freedom attorney Kristen Waggoner appeared on Collins' show and dismantled her defense of mifepristone.
First, Collins asserted without evidence that Dr. Francis has no experience treating women who experience complications from mifepristone.
"Just to be clear, Dr. Francis: You have never had to go to the emergency room to do this," Collins told the physician. "You've never been required to perform an abortion for someone who had complications from taking this, right?"
Francis quickly corrected the record.
"I have actually taken care of women in our emergency room who have come in with complications and had to do procedures to finish removing the contents of their pregnancy from their uterus," Francis corrected.
"But not an abortion, right?" Collins followed up.
"I have been brought down to the emergency room to complete the process that was started by these abortion drugs," Francis explained. "This is happening more and more frequently because women are not even receiving in-person medical care prior to receiving these high-risk drugs because of the FDA's decisions."
CNN’s Kaitlan Collins tries to gotcha pro-life Dr. Christina Francis: “Just to be clear, Dr. Francis, you have never had to go to the ER…to perform an abortion for someone who had complications from taking [chemical abortion drugs], right?” pic.twitter.com/ZeaUyLlt5W
— Mary Margaret Olohan (@MaryMargOlohan) March 27, 2024
Then, Waggoner challenged Collins' assertion that mifepristone is safe and reiterated that the petitioners in the case simply want women to have contact with a doctor before they essentially induce at-home labor with abortion pills.
"The FDA's own label, right now, when you go out and you purchase this drug, it tells you that one in 25 women are going to have to visit the emergency room and up to 7% of women are going to have surgical interventions," Waggoner explained.
"We're told that it's safe, that no one has the right to challenge the FDA. And this is the same FDA that told us that opioids were safe to use for chronic pain and that surely no one would get addicted," she said.
Collins, however, pushed back, claiming, "Penicillin is more dangerous than mifepristone."
But Waggoner had more hard data to fact-check Collins, all of which came directly from the FDA.
"What the FDA's own statistics and documents say are that up to 7% of women are going to have surgical interventions. In just 2020, the FDA said that an in-person doctor visit is not only minimally burdensome on a patient, but it's necessary," she explained. "And they explicitly said that thousands of women are presenting with severe complications as a result of taking this drug."
"This isn't me saying it. It's what the FDA has said," she added. "What they say in court now is very different than what their own data tell you."
CNN’s @kaitlancollins repeatedly claims on air that chemical abortion drugs are safe
ADF’s @KWaggonerADF: “Kaitlin, that’s actually not true…what the FDA’s own statistics and documents say is that up to 7% of women are going to have surgical complications.” pic.twitter.com/LHA7ZxdNfe
— Mary Margaret Olohan (@MaryMargOlohan) March 27, 2024
Aside from Waggoner's explanation, Collins has zero data to support her claims about the safety of abortion pills.
That's because, starting in 2016, the FDA required doctors to report only deaths from mifepristone — not any and every adverse effect and complication. Then, in 2021, the FDA loosened restrictions on the drug, further citing the apparent lack of adverse effects and complications as justification.
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During a press conference in Brussels on Thursday, President Joe Biden admitted that food shortages are "going to be real" because that is "the price of the sanctions" that have been imposed on Russia over its invasion of Ukraine.
"With regard to food shortages … it's gonna be real," Biden said. "The price of the sanctions is not just imposed upon Russia. It's imposed upon an awful lot of countries as well. Including European countries and our country as well."
Biden on food shortages:\n\n"With regard to food shortage...it's gonna be real."pic.twitter.com/F3dQ7NLqqB— TheBlaze (@TheBlaze) 1648144392
Of course, we all know the incoming food shortages have absolutely nothing to with any of the Biden administration's policies.
We\u2019re about to face massive energy and food shortages, and Biden\u2019s solution is to ban drilling and put expensive and inefficient solar panels and windmills on what\u2019s left of American farmland that hasn\u2019t been bought up by China or BlackRock.https://mobile.twitter.com/theblaze/status/1507052928925941766\u00a0\u2026— Sean Davis (@Sean Davis) 1648146689
The sanctions will have the same disastrous consequences as the lockdowns, the ruling elite will play God and the result will be the lining of the pockets of the already wealthy while the overlooked, forgotten and despised masses will pay the price, many with their lives.— Phil Brown (@Phil Brown) 1648162056
You get what you bite for. The government\u2019s policy towards O&G created this situation, during Covid we saw shortages of urea and ammonia due to Covid restrictions workforce destruction in energy (nat gas) now cutting of the #1 supplier of nat gas just adds fuel to the fire.— Chickey \ud83e\udd80,\ud83d\udc38,\ud83d\udd3a (@Chickey \ud83e\udd80,\ud83d\udc38,\ud83d\udd3a) 1648154842
Does he not know we don\u2019t have to settle for high gas prices, open borders, high crime, food shortages, etc\u2026 we are the USA !! We\u2019re not a 3rd world country. Wake up or let someone else take the wheel @LawrenceBJones3 @WillCainShow— J Walsh (@J Walsh) 1648145399
Minutes later, Biden was asked why the U.S. and other NATO nations are continuing to impose sanctions when "deterrents didn't work."
"Let's get something straight," snapped a visibly peeved Biden. "I did not say that, in fact, the sanctions would deter [Putin.] Sanctions never deter. You keep talking about that. Sanctions never deter."
BIDEN: "I did not say that, in fact, the sanctions would deter him. Sanctions never deter. You keep talking about that. Sanctions never deter."pic.twitter.com/JlAFyMBW2D— Townhall.com (@Townhall.com) 1648144502
So, what is the point of sanctions if "sanctions never deter"?
Also, President Biden and several administration officials representing him, have most definitely said that the sanctions are intended to deter.
Yea just ask Kamalahttps://www.wsj.com/video/vice-president-kamala-harris-says-russia-will-face-swift-severe-sanctions-if-it-invades-ukraine/6C02EBD7-DA48-4E8C-B14E-5633AB0C7316.html\u00a0\u2026— John Escover \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8 (@John Escover \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8) 1648161363
CNN's @KaitlanCollins: "If sanctions cannot stop President Putin, what penalty can?"\n\nBiden: "I didn't say sanctions couldn\u2019t stop him."\n\nCollins: "You've been talking about the threat of these sanctions for several weeks now."pic.twitter.com/LeJFxYpXol— Curtis Houck (@Curtis Houck) 1645730195
pic.twitter.com/DDEyDCzXDw— Tayo (@Tayo) 1648148154
Biden today: "I did not say that, in fact, the sanctions would deter [Putin]. Sanctions never deter. You keep talking about that. Sanctions never deter."\n\nKamala Harris in February: "The purpose of the sanctions has always been and continues to be deterrence."pic.twitter.com/F0fccsFYnJ— Townhall.com (@Townhall.com) 1648145102
.@MajorCBS Garrett with an immediate fact-check of Biden claiming no one ever said sanctions were a deterrent: "History will record...several administration officials representing the President of the United States, Joseph Biden, said, in fact, sanctions might deter...invasion."pic.twitter.com/FDx1VNx6Qe— Curtis Houck (@Curtis Houck) 1648144828
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is under fire from health experts and employee groups that say the new COVID-19 isolation and quarantine guidance doesn't follow the science. The critics are saying the government is changing the rules for practical reasons — to keep the economy from shutting down — and comments from CDC Director Rochelle Walensky and White House chief medical adviser Dr. Anthony Fauci indicate the critics have a point.
On Monday, the CDC rolled out new guidance shortening the time people who test positive for COVID-19 are recommended to isolate before interacting with other people. Previously, a person who tested positive for the virus was supposed to quarantine for 10 days. Now, the CDC says people who test positive are asked to isolate for five days and then, if they have no symptoms, they may leave quarantine as long as they wear a mask around others. The new guidance applies to everyone, regardless of vaccination status.
But here's what's causing controversy: The new guidelines do not require a person in quarantine to test negative for the virus before leaving isolation after five days. They are also silent on the type of mask a person leaving quarantine should wear, even though the weight of scientific evidence suggests that cloth masks, which are highly popular, are not that effective at stopping transmission of the Delta or Omicron coronavirus variants.
Fauci and Walensky insist the change is based on science demonstrating that most COVID-19 transmission happens 1-2 days prior to the onset of symptoms and 2-3 days afterward.
Health experts commenting on social media criticized the lack of a testing recommendation, with one epidemiologist going so far as to call the guidance "reckless."
CDC\u2019s new guidance to drop isolation of positives to 5 days without a negative test is reckless\n\nSome ppl stay infectious 3 days,Some 12\n\nI absolutely don\u2019t want to sit next to someone who turned Pos 5 days ago and hasnt tested Neg\n\nTest Neg to leave isolation early is just smart— Michael Mina (@Michael Mina) 1640645077
On Tuesday night, Fauci went on MSNBC with host Chris Hayes to defend the new guidance. Hayes was clearly skeptical of the new rules, asking if there was actual science behind the change or if the CDC made a "policy judgement" based on certain "trade-offs" — like making sure that America's infrastructure doesn't shut down because essential workers are forced to quarantine for 10 days if they test positive for COVID.
.@chrislhayes pressed Fauci tonight on new CDC guidance.\n\nHAYES: Is there any science backing up the idea that after 5 days\u2026 you\u2019re not still shedding virus?\n\nFAUCI: This is one of those situations\u2026 that we often say, you don't want the perfect to be the enemy of the good.pic.twitter.com/NVSqfZ8yUk— Dan Diamond (@Dan Diamond) 1640752693
"Nothing is going to be 100%," Fauci answered, calling the CDC's decision a "difficult situation."
"You don't want the perfect to be the enemy of the good," Fauci said, arguing that after five days, mask-wearing should provide enough protection against virus transmission for asymptomatic, COVID-positive people to leave quarantine.
Walensky echoed Fauci's comments in an interview on Wednesday morning, but was even more forthright about how the CDC considered people's resistance to coronavirus restrictions before coming to its decision.
CNN's @kaitlancollins: "It sounds like this decision had just as much to do with business as it did the science."\n\n@CDCDirector Dr. Rochelle Walensky: "It really had a lot to do with what we thought people would be able to tolerate."pic.twitter.com/Ek3X3S7Q9S— The Recount (@The Recount) 1640784051
"It really had a lot to do with what we thought people would be able to tolerate," Walensky admitted.
Both Fauci and Walensky have also vigorously denied that the lack of a testing requirement is due to limited supply of virus tests in the U.S., contradicting multiple news reports on the CDC's decision-making.
CNN reported Tuesday that a shortage of tests factored into the administration's decision, quoting a senior administration official.
"If we require a test, people are going to say, 'What if we can't get a test?'" the official told CNN. "Rather than letting the perfect be the enemy of the good," the official said, the CDC went with looser restrictions, although the official noted that "best practice would also include a test for SARS-CoV-2 at day 5 after exposure.”
The New York Times corroborated that report: "A scientist who has discussed isolation policy with the C.D.C. in recent months said that officials said the agency could not recommend rapid tests while supplies were so scarce. The scientist spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe confidential discussions."
But Fauci has outright denied that claim. "The reason the CDC gives is not because there is a shortage of tests," he told CNN on Tuesday. Walensky said the same thing Wednesday morning.
"This really had nothing to do with supply. It had everything to do with knowing what we would do with the information when we got it," she told CBS.
So Fauci and Walensky have admitted the policy change was not based solely on scientific evidence, but other considerations as well. And they appear to be lying about, or at least obfuscating, the factors that went into the CDC's decision.
As for their claims about COVID infections not being contagious after five days, some health experts who spoke to the New York Times disagreed. Yonatan Grad, an associate professor of immunology and infectious diseases at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, said the CDC's policy "feels honestly more about economics than about the science."
“I suspect what it will do is result in at least some people emerging from isolation more quickly, and so there’ll be more opportunities for transmission and that of course will accelerate the spread of Covid-19,” he told the Times, adding that people are unlikely to strictly follow the CDC's masking guidelines after returning from quarantine.
“I don’t think reducing the time for isolation overall is a bad idea,” said Angela Rasmussen, a virologist at the Vaccine and Infectious Disease Organization at the University of Saskatchewan in Canada. “But saying, ‘Five days is probably OK, based on Delta, so let’s give it a shot and see,’ is really not what you should be doing.”
Labor groups have also protested the guidance, fearing that employers will require sick employees to return to work after five days, when they might still be contagious.
“It’s only going to lead to more illness, more cases,” said Jean Ross, president of National Nurses United, during an appearance on CNN.
Sarah Nelson, president of the Association of Flight Attendants, told CNN separately that her union is concerned that the CDC changed its policy after receiving pressure from business groups to do so. Last week, Delta Air Lines CEO Ed Bastian and company chief health officer Henry Ting, along with medical adviser Carlos del Rio, sent a letter to Walensky urging the CDC to shorten the isolation period from 10 days to five.
"Our concern is that this is putting all the onus on the workers and when you put policies forward that are pro-business and not grounded in public health, it gives people reason to pause and not trust our public health requirement," Nelson said.
The problem is that even people who were fully compliant with social distancing, masking, and vaccination mandates are testing positive for COVID-19. Hundreds of flights were canceled over Christmas weekend because flight crew members tested positive for COVID, despite airline employee vaccine mandates, and had to call in sick, without anyone to replace them.
Faced with a virus that is continuing to infect even those that have fully complied with the government's guidance, the Biden administration can either continue to insist that people adhere to its recommendations — which will shut down the economy again — or they can change the guidance to keep the economy open. It appears they have chosen the latter, frustrating health experts.
"I wish they just came out and said [the real reason]," George Washington University public health professor and former Planned Parenthood president Leana Wen said on CNN Tuesday, according to The Hill. "Tests actually are needed to exit isolation, but if we don't even have enough tests right now to test symptomatic people, then we cannot possibly issue a guidance for all of America to exit isolation that way."
(h/t: Hot Air)
After several days of confusion and conflicting messages, President Joe Biden now admits that his administration is, in fact, negotiating payments to the families of illegal immigrants who were separated at the border under previous administrations.
News broke last week that the Biden administration was contemplating a settlement that would pay around $450,000 per person to immigrant families that were split up at the border as a result of the Trump administration's "zero tolerance policy" on illegal immigration. Although families were also separated at the border under the Bush and Obama administrations, it is not clear whether the contemplated settlements would encompass those families as well.
The settlements, which were initially reported by the Wall Street Journal, could have ended up totaling close to $1 million per family, and may have varied according to the circumstances of each family, meaning they could have been smaller in some cases. Administration officials who spoke to the Wall Street Journal noted that the figures were still being negotiated and could have changed before being finalized.
The payments were widely criticized in light of the current economic climate in the United States, which has seen many families struggling with historic levels of inflation and high gas prices. Many critics also pointed out that news of the settlements would likely encourage more illegal immigration in the midst of the ongoing border crisis, which has seen a historic surge in illegal immigration during the first year of Biden's presidency.
Biden was asked about the program by Fox News' Peter Doocy on Wednesday, and angrily denied that any such settlements were being negotiated. Doocy asked, "As you were leaving for your overseas trip, there were reports that were surfacing that your administration's planning to pay illegal immigrants who were separated from their families at the border up to $450,000 each, possibly $1 million per family. Do you think that that might incentivize more people to come over illegally?"
Biden responded angrily, "If you guys keep sending that garbage out, yeah. But it's not true."
Biden's angry denial was immediately condemned by the ACLU, which was involved in negotiating some of the settlements with the immigrant families. Furthermore, multiple media outlets immediately confirmed the Wall Street Journal's reporting.
In a Thursday statement, Deputy White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre tried to walk back Biden's claims, saying that the administration was "perfectly comfortable" with settlements, but was merely disputing the price tag. Jean-Pierre then said Department of Justice officials had relayed to families of the illegal immigrants in question that $450,000 per person was too high, thus also confirming the WSJ's reports as to the price tag that was being discussed at the time.
On Saturday, Biden was asked to provide clarification, and finally personally acknowledged that his administration is, in fact, negotiating these payments. Further, Biden insisted that these families deserve "some kind of compensation," apparently for having gone through what some portion of illegal immigrant families have gone through and accepted as a risk for the last twenty years when they illegally cross the border.
Biden clarifies he was disputing the number amount when he said a report about payments for families separated at the southern border was \u201cgarbage.\u201d Raising his voice, says those who lost their child deserve \u201csome kind of compensation.\u201d
— Kaitlan Collins (@kaitlancollins) 1636208701
Disturbing videos shared to social media Monday morning have reportedly captured Afghans clinging to air-bound planes in order to escape Taliban-controlled Afghanistan.
In the videos, objects that various outlets reported are people can be seen falling from planes as the aircrafts ascend hundreds of feet into the sky.
Videos captured the moment hordes of Afghani people began chasing U.S. Air Force cargo planes down a Kabul airport runway in desperate bids to flee the country.
According to the Daily Wire, myriad outlets including Newsweek, the Daily Mail, and more reported that those objects falling from the planes were, indeed, people.
The outlet reported that the hysterical mobs forced the U.S. military to use helicopters to "clear people off the tarmac so the planes could take off."
Insider reported that other photos "depict the bodies of people who had reportedly fallen onto the roofs of buildings in the Afghan capital from planes they attempted to stowaway on."
"Locals near Kabul airport claim that three young men who were holding themselves tightly in the tires of an airplane fell on top of people's houses. One of the locals confirmed this and said that the fall of these people made a loud and terrifying noise," Afghan news agency Asvaka News tweeted alongside a graphic photo of a person's dead body. The agency also tweeted a video of onlookers examining the person's body.
One social media user tweeted a particularly disturbing video showing a small crowd of people huddled on the side of one of the aircrafts, and captioned it, "No words can describe these scenes."
Content warning: Disturbing video footage:
No words can describe these sceneshttps://t.co/NTBX38n5wA
— Ali Folladwand | علی فولادوند (@drfolladwand) 1629106441.0
Exclusive- A clear video (from other angle) of men falling from C-17. They were Clinging to some parts of the plane… https://t.co/tKNF6ZKQHw
— Aśvaka - آسواکا News Agency (@AsvakaNews) 1629107602.0
BREAKING: At least 2 people fall to their death after holding on to a plane as it takes off from Kabul Airport https://t.co/m7XU8lwo5S
— BNO News (@BNONews) 1629103495.0
16 August , 2021, Hamid Karzai international Airport. https://t.co/DiPlvnsaaZ
— BILAL SARWARY (@bsarwary) 1629108502.0
https://t.co/ztsl6jiVXv
— Sowaibah Hanifie (@SowaibahH) 1629097766.0
Later on Monday morning, U.S. reportedly suspended all flights at Kabul's Karzai International Airport in order to clear the airfield.
CNN's Kaitlan Collins tweeted, "The US military has suspended air operations at the Kabul airport while troops try to clear the airfield of Afghans who flooded the tarmac [according to CNN Pentagon correspondent Barbara Starr]. Biden's national security advisers have made clear this a.m. they don't consider the airport secure right now."
The US military has suspended air operations at the Kabul airport while troops try to clear the airfield of Afghans… https://t.co/HgLQgCATIR
— Kaitlan Collins (@kaitlancollins) 1629114692.0
President Joe Biden lost his cool with a U.S. reporter in Geneva on Wednesday over the journalist's question regarding Russian President Vladimir Putin.
The exchange went viral, sparking condemnation from other U.S. reporters. Afterward, Biden apologized for his response, saying he "shouldn't have been such a wise guy."
Following his summit with Putin, Biden held a press conference where he took questions from a list of pre-approved journalists, Fox News reported. But as the president turned and walked away, he decided to respond to questions shouted from the press pool.
That's when CNN's Kaitlan Collins asked, "Why are you so confident he'll change his behavior, Mr. President?" referring to Putin.
"I'm not confident he'll change his behavior," a visibly frustrated Biden replied. "What the hell! What do you do all the time?"
Biden then raised a finger and began walking toward Collins, saying, "When did I say I was confident? What I said was — let's get it straight — I said what will change their behavior is if the rest of the world reacts to them and it diminishes their standing in the world."
Collins pressed back, replying, "but given his past behavior has not changed, and in that press conference after sitting down with you for several hours, he denied any involvement in cyberattacks, he's downplayed human rights abuses, he even refused to say Alexei Navalny's name. So, how does that amount to a constructive meeting?"
"If you don't understand that, you're in the wrong business," Biden told the reporter.
Several other U.S. reporters took to social media condemning Biden for his treatment of Collins, and her name became a trending topic on Twitter.
New York Magazine's Olivia Nuzzi tweeted, "If you're the most powerful person in the world and you can't field questions from the media without losing your temper, maybe you're in the wrong business." Nuzzi added, "What kind of example does it set for other countries when the president of the United States insults a member of the free press on an international stage for asking a fair question in good faith?"
Glenn Greenwald described video of the exchange as showing "Biden aggressively insulting and demeaning a female reporter while she's just doing her job, all in front of her colleagues."
Before boarding Air Force One afterward, Biden stopped to tell the White House press pool, "I owe my last questioner an apology. I shouldn't have been such a wise guy with the last answer I gave."
President Biden apologizes to CNN’s Kaitlan Collins before departing Geneva for his response to her question at the… https://t.co/ngPh1h5GmU
— JM Rieger (@RiegerReport) 1623868156.0
The White House confirmed on Friday that President Joe Biden will sign executive orders on gun control.
During Friday's White House press conference, CNN Chief White House Correspondent Kaitlan Collins asked, "Should we still be expecting executive orders from the President on gun measures?" White House press secretary Jen Psaki replied, "Yes," and said there isn't "an exact timeframe" on the gun control actions.
"I will note that when the president was the vice-president in the Obama-Biden administration, he helped put in place 23 executive actions to combat gun violence," Psaki added. "It's one of the levers that we can use, that any federal government, any President can use to help address the prevalence of gun violence and address community safety around the country."
"We have to address this epidemic, address the threat of gun violence across many avenues," Psaki said. "And he will. He's committed to doing that."
@kaitlancollins WH Press Sec. Jen Psaki can't give an exact timeframe on when Biden will use executive orders to co… https://t.co/0PypVLugMO— The Recount (@The Recount)1616778762.0
During Wednesday's White House press conference, Psaki said President Biden has been weighing using executive actions for gun control measures "for several weeks."
"Executive actions are of course, an important lever that every president has at their disposal," Psaki stated. "There's current discussions and analysis internally of what steps can be taken,.that that has been ongoing for several weeks, even before these two recent tragedies, that he looks forward to getting an update on and seeing what can be moved forward on that front as well. So he's not waiting for anything to fail, is really the answer to your question."
Psaki noted that the Biden administration believes addressing gun access is "important," as well as "addressing community violence and a range of issues that are root causes and kind of lead to the deaths and the impact that we're seeing that's so troubling."
Psaki tells @weijia there's an "ongoing policy process internally" about President Biden's potential executive acti… https://t.co/flxXEKTFpH— CBS News (@CBS News)1616605263.0
Last month, Psaki proclaimed that Biden "has a range of actions at his disposal" to bypass Congress to enact gun control measures, adding that the president "hasn't ruled out" using executive power to address the issue.
On Friday, Biden may have hinted that one of his first actions on guns could have to do with 3D-printed guns and imported firearms.
"We are looking at what kind of authority I have relative to imported weapons as well as whether or not I have any authority to ... these new weapons that are being made by 3D equipment that aren't registered as guns at all," Biden told reporters while on the tarmac en route to his home in Delaware. "There may be some latitude there as well."
Four Democratic senators are urging Biden to take executive action on "ghost guns," which are handmade firearms or gun kits that the buyer assembles themselves. Ghost guns don't need to be registered or have a serial number. The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives does not regulate these kits as firearms. Democratic lawmakers want ghost guns classified as firearms, which would require a background check, according to CNN.
On Tuesday, Biden called for a ban on assault weapons and high-capacity magazines.
"I don't need to wait another minute, let alone an hour, to take common sense steps that will save lives in the future," Biden demanded. "We can ban assault weapons and high-capacity magazines in this country once again. I got that done when I was a senator. It passed, it was the law for the longest time and it brought down these mass killings. We should do it again."
Biden also called for more stringent background checks.
"We can close the loopholes in our background check system, including the Charleston loophole," Biden said. "That's one of the best tools we have right now to prevent gun violence. The Senate should immediately pass, let me say it again. The United States Senate, I hope some are listening, should immediately pass the two house past bills that close loopholes in the background check system."
On the third anniversary of the Parkland school shooting in February, President Biden called on Congress to implement "commonsense gun law reforms."
"Three years ago today, a lone gunman took the lives of 14 students and three educators at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida," Biden said in a statement. "In seconds, the lives of dozens of families, and the life of an American community, were changed forever."
"This Administration will not wait for the next mass shooting to heed that call," Biden declared. "We will take action to end our epidemic of gun violence and make our schools and communities safer."
"Today, I am calling on Congress to enact commonsense gun law reforms, including requiring background checks on all gun sales, banning assault weapons and high-capacity magazines, and eliminating immunity for gun manufacturers who knowingly put weapons of war on our streets," the president continued. "We owe it to all those we've lost and to all those left behind to grieve to make a change. The time to act is now."
The Biden administration is pushing for gun control measures in response to recent mass shootings in Atlanta, where eight people were killed, and Boulder, where there were 10 casualties.
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