Karine Jean Pierre Bombarded By Border Wall Questions After Biden Claims Hands Are Tied

White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre faced a battery of questions from reporters about whether the Biden administration was flip-flopping after President Joe Biden’s apparent backtrack on border walls.

The press briefing was dominated by the news that the administration waived 26 federal laws to build an expanded barricade in South Texas, with DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas quoted acknowledging the “immediate need to construct physical barriers” to stymie illegal immigration. Biden has declared his opposition to border walls in the past, and shortly before the briefing, the president insisted his administration was being procedurally required to move ahead with the barricade because they couldn’t divert funding that was appropriated by Congress for it back in 2019.

In the briefing, Jean-Pierre argued Biden still believes in other means of securing the border, and that he has remained consistent in his policies. Asked why this is happening now, Jean-Pierre referred back to Biden’s insistence that he tried to have the funding reappropriated, but Congress refused, and now “we have to comply by law to get this done.”

We have to comply by law and that’s what we are doing at this time. We asked Congress to reappropriate the funds. That’s what we would prefer to see, not waste the funding in the way they are doing it right now that we are required to do. But they refused, and so now we are moving forward.

The press secretary continued to speak to Biden’s compliance with congressional law despite his opposition to the funding that was assigned back when Donald Trump was president. She then faced questions about why Mayorkas said walls are urgently needed to prevent unlawful entries into America.

“I have not seen his full statement on that,” Jean-Pierre said. “What I can speak to is for the president, the president has been very clear that he doesn’t believe it’s effective. He answered that question of your colleague, that’s what I can speak to. That’s what we are going to talk about, and we have said there are smarter ways and more effective ways in dealing with this, and there are.”

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