The VP didn’t make things any easier for the administration by seeming to agree with a student who suggested Israel is engaged in «ethnic genocide.»
The past week was tough for President Joe Biden. Vice President Kamala Harris didn’t make it any easier. Biden’s legislative agenda, including a $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill and a sprawling $3.5 trillion budget reconciliation package, stalled after Democrats failed to reach an agreement on the larger piece of legislation, which includes funding for a variety of social programs. Earlier in the week, lawmakers grilled military leaders over the U.S. evacuation of Afghanistan, and one contradicted a statement the president made last month claiming that advisers did not tell him to keep a small military presence in the country. Polls in recent weeks have shown Biden struggling. Last month in a Harvard CAPS-Harris poll,51 percent of registered voters said Donald Trump was a better president than Biden. A survey released by the Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research Friday showed Biden’s approval dropping among Democrats. Harris, for her part, inadvertently added fuel to the fire on Tuesday with for her response to a George Mason University student’s comment accusing Israel of «ethnic genocide.» It wasn’t the first time Harris opened the Biden administration up to criticism. «You brought up how the power of the people and demonstrations and organizing is very valuable in America,» the student said, «but I see that over the summer there have been protests and demonstrations in astronomical numbers standing with Palestine.
