White House lashes out at GOP over abortion as Roe 50th anniversary approaches
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The White House lashed out against House Republicans in a lengthy statement to lead off Wednesday’s press briefing, attacking the GOP over the issues of abortion and the economy.
The Biden administration has been taking a more aggressive stance as it seeks to draw attention away from a classified documents scandal that has cast a shadow over Biden’s presidency. That trend continued with Wednesday’s statement.
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“Fifty years after the Supreme Court’s 1973 decision in Roe v. Wade, ultra-MAGA Republican officials continue to push at all levels of government for extreme legislation rolling back women’s fundamental rights, including a national abortion ban,” said White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre.
Vice President Kamala Harris will speak in Florida over the weekend to address abortion rights. The landmark case guaranteeing abortion rights would have turned 50 years old on Jan. 22. Instead, it was struck down last year by the conservative-dominated Supreme Court, leading to abortion being one of the biggest issues in the 2022 midterms.
“At the state level, more than 60 anti-choice bills have been produced for the 2023 legislative session, including extreme proposals going as far as threatening women with felony charges for accessing care,” Jean-Pierre said. “In stark contrast, the president and vice president remain committed to fighting these extreme attacks on women and expanding access to reproductive care however they possibly can.”
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The White House also attacked GOPers on economic issues, saying Republicans threatened Medicare and Social Security — which Jean-Pierre initially referred to as “social media” — and cut taxes for the rich.
“Their very first vote of the new Congress was a bill to worsen inflation and tax welfare for the rich,” Jean-Pierre said. “They want to impose an unprecedented increase on middle-class families in the form of a 23% sales tax in order to provide even more tax giveaways to the super rich and big corporations.”
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