With simply over a month left in workplace, high members of President Biden’s Cabinet are standing behind their previous statements expressing help for his management and their perception that he’s nonetheless match for workplace — regardless of a yr of controversy and debate over Biden’s capability to serve out his time period.
Fox News Digital reached out to Cabinet officers and their departments, asking them in the event that they believed President Biden was match to serve, and in the event that they stood by previous statements of confidence in his capability to proceed.
DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, in a press release in September, stated that he has “full confidence in President Biden’s capability to hold out his job.
“As I’ve stated earlier than, I come absolutely ready for my conferences with President Biden, figuring out his questions can be detail-oriented, probing, and exacting. In our exchanges, the President at all times attracts upon our prior conversations and previous occasions in analyzing the problems and reaching his conclusions,” he stated.
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On Monday, DHS said that the secretary stands by these feedback.
President Joe Biden in attendance on the U.S. National Christmas Tree Lighting held exterior the White House on December 05, 2024 in Washington, DC. (Getty Images)
Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo has known as Biden “one of the vital achieved presidents in American historical past and continues to successfully lead our nation with a gradual hand.”
“As somebody who is definitely within the room when the President meets with the cupboard and international leaders, I can inform you he’s an incisive and extraordinary chief,” Raimondo stated.
A spokesperson stated this week that Raimondo stands by these feedback.
Sabrina Singh, deputy Pentagon press secretary advised Fox in September: “As Secretary Austin has stated earlier than, he has watched President Biden make powerful nationwide safety choices and seen his dedication to retaining our troops protected – he has nothing however complete confidence in our Commander-in-Chief.”
This week, Singh stated these feedback nonetheless stand.
Biden’s psychological acuity was a topic of hypothesis even previous him being sworn into workplace, however dialogue about its implications got here to a head this yr after what was broadly seen as a disastrous debate efficiency in opposition to former President Donald Trump that seemingly initiated the method to exchange him on the Democratic ticket within the race for the presidency.
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Biden finally dropped out of the race, handing the nomination to Vice President Kamala Harris, who would in flip go on to lose within the November election in opposition to President-elect Trump. But whereas Biden stated he wouldn’t search re-election, he selected to not step down from workplace.
The topic of Biden’s acuity re-emerged in September when he handed over the reins of a Cabinet assembly to first woman Jill Biden. But it was then that Cabinet members backed Biden and stated they’d no considerations about his capability to serve.
U.S. first woman Jill Biden speaks whereas attending her first cupboard assembly throughout her husband President Joe Biden’s administration on the White House on September 20, 2024 in Washington, DC. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
Secretary of Health and Human Services Xavier Becerra — considered one of Biden’s staunch defenders — stated Biden “has completed extra as president for this nation than some other president whom I’ve labored with since 1992.”
“So sure, not solely can he do the job, however he has been doing it,” he stated in a press release to Fox News Digital. “And we’re lucky to have somebody who continues to make use of all of his expertise to take us additional. If you recall the place we had been 4 years in the past, the depth of a pandemic, Americans dropping their jobs, Americans dropping their well being care. Today, extra Americans are employed than ever earlier than. Today, extra Americans have well being protection than ever earlier than. No President within the historical past of this nation has ever positioned 700 million vaccines within the arms of Americans to maintain them alive and preserve them wholesome. The consequence? Our economy is wholesome.”
“Is he match? He’s proving it,” Becerra added.
An HHS spokesperson stated that Becerra’s feedback stand.
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Spokespersons for different businesses that had beforehand commented, together with the Environmental Protection Agency, the Department of Energy and the Department of Agriculture, additionally stated they stood by these feedback.
As it stands, President Biden will end his time period on Jan. 20 when President-elect Trump is sworn into workplace.
President Joe Biden and his successor President-elect Donald Trump. (Brandon Bell/Getty Images; Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
Biden spoke this week at a DNC vacation celebration in Washington, D.C. During his remarks he argued that the nation is in a “resoundingly” higher place right this moment than when he and Harris entered the White House.
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“The one factor I’ve at all times believed about public service, and particularly in regards to the presidency, is the significance of asking your self, have we left the nation in higher form than we discovered it? Today, I can say with each fiber of my being, of all my coronary heart, the reply to that query is a convincing sure,” he stated.
He went on to encourage staffers to “keep engaged” within the years forward.
“You’re not going wherever, child,” Biden stated of Harris. “Because we’re not gonna allow you to.”
