Rep. Claudia Tenney, R-N.Y., sharply criticized President Biden and his dealing with of the COVID pandemic Tuesday, saying throughout an interview with Fox Information Digital that she would grade his management over the past three years as “lower than zero.”
The Biden administration’s “one-size-fits-all” method to lockdowns and vaccine mandates ruined peoples’ livelihoods, devastated the economic system and did incalculable injury to constituents in her twenty fourth Congressional District and others across the nation, she mentioned.
“It is about time,” Tenney advised Fox Information Digital when requested about Biden formally ending the COVID nationwide emergency, which he signed earlier this week. It had been in impact since March 2020. “I’ve been calling for the tip of the pandemic.”
“We targeted on all people with a one-sized matches all answer, which by no means works,” the New Yorker advised Fox Information Digital. “As an alternative of getting a sensible coverage. We shut all people down. We put our economic system in peril. We harm our communities, we misplaced livelihoods. They do not need to observe the science.”
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Consultant Claudia Tenney, a Republican from New York, scolded President Biden over his dealing with of the coronavirus pandemic. (Ken Cedeno/UPI/Bloomberg through Getty Photos)
Tenney added: “Joe Biden introduced final 12 months that the pandemic is over, so why proceed with the mandates on vaccines? Why proceed to place employers by troublesome occasions and never be capable of get folks again to work? College students not with the ability to go to high school or to enroll in courses?”
Biden ‘completely not’ being clear and trustworthy with the American folks
When requested whether or not the Biden administration was being trustworthy with the American folks, Tenney pointed to new data being revealed by Elon Musk, Matt Taibbi and others exhibiting “the entire ridiculous protocols and the falsities which have come out on COVID-19.”
“[They are] exposing the sort of ridiculous non-science, political causes that the Biden administration and others have required this vaccine mandate or actually had the lockdowns and put us ready that we could not thrive,” the Republican lawmaker mentioned. “Many individuals in lots of companies have been harm by these lockdowns and these closures and these vaccine mandates. Folks have misplaced their livelihoods.”
“They don’t seem to be utilizing science, and so they’re being uncovered in all places,” she continued.
“Our personal director of the CDC mentioned that we have come to understand that the vaccines don’t stop the unfold of this illness. So we’re forcing everybody to be vaccinated, and it does nothing in deterring or stopping the unfold of the illness. So why are we forcing wholesome folks to take the vaccine?”
President Biden saved the journey restrictions and vaccine mandates in place a number of months after different nation resume pre-pandemic insurance policies. (Julien Behal/Irish Authorities through Getty Photos)
Individuals who have been much less vulnerable to COVID and people “much less weak” shouldn’t have been compelled to shut their companies, stay out of faculties or give up their livelihoods to haphazard restrictions, she contended.
Tenney added: “I am speaking about younger folks, college-age youngsters, youngsters, younger youngsters, athletes, which might be elite athletes within the prime of their well being, who’ve additionally possibly had COVID-19 and recovered. They fully disregarded the pure immunity.”
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“I feel they’ve gotten snug with their management over the American folks,” the lawmaker speculated.
The pandemic fallout continues to have an effect on New Yorkers and others
Biden’s vaccine mandate and the insurance policies of New York’s “authoritarian” Gov. Kathy Hochul proceed to have an effect on these in her state, Tenney mentioned.
Nurses — “who have been heroes through the pandemic” — are unable to help in an ongoing nursing scarcity as a result of “the Biden administration continued the vaccine mandate” and Hochul “wouldn’t let these folks [who would not or could not get the vaccine] get again to work,” she continued.
“And now, a lot of our rural hospitals in upstate New York are in peril,” the Republican mentioned. “They’re going through fiscal crises proper now, the place they might not even be allowed to remain open due to the lack of workers. The requirement to close down whole wings of hospitals, not as a result of, you recognize, they have been over capacitated as a result of they merely do not have the workers as a result of the vaccine mandate and different guidelines put in place.”
Rep. Claudia Tenney, R-N.Y., is interviewed by CQ-Roll Name, Inc through Getty Photos in her Longworth Constructing workplace on Tuesday, November 30, 2021. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Name, Inc through Getty Photos)
These insurance policies are going to harm these hospitals and others affected “in the long term,” she contented. “We could not have sufficient hospital beds to even meet the wants of the people who want them now. And we may very well be in actual disaster if now we have one other pandemic.”
“Lastly, at present, the president of the State College of New York system introduced all 64 campuses now don’t require the vaccine to ensure that college students to attend faculty, which is nice. This is among the least weak teams,” Tenney mentioned.
Biden denying Novak Djokovic entry into the U.S. was ‘politics,’ not science
Tenney has been vocal about her help for tennis star Novak Djokovic, who’s ranked among the many greatest on this planet, as he was denied entry to play in america final 12 months as a result of Biden administration’s vaccine mandates.
“I pleaded with Secretary Blinken and Joe Biden within the administration to let Djokovic play. Novak Djokovic had COVID-19 [and natural immunity]. He is extraordinarily wholesome. He is one of many healthiest folks most likely on the planet along with his unbelievable document as a tennis participant at his age. Even the USTA and different tennis organizations have urged that Djokovic must be allowed to play and be given a waiver,” she defined.
The Biden administration denied her request, however they allowed different members of the US Open to play with out being vaccinated, so she believes their reasoning was not based mostly on science however on politics.
“Mockingly, Djokovic truly performed in 2020 and 2021. Earlier than we had a vaccine, so it is absurd,” she mentioned. “This is not science. It is politics, particularly in relation to Novak Djokovic as a result of he would not maintain the views that this administration holds politically. And so the very last thing they’ll do is permit somebody like Novak Djokovic, a waiver to come back in. Regardless, I imply, sports activities ought to take us away from politics. And that is why I have been combating so arduous. That is symbolic of what is occurred to Djokovic. And it is what we should not be doing as a rustic.”
Novak Djokovic of Serbia was denied entry to play in america on account of his vaccination standing. (Clive Brunskill/Getty Photos)
President Biden vs. President Trump
Tenney advised Fox Information Digital that the final 4 years gave Individuals a chance to see how the Trump administration initially tackled the COVID pandemic when the illness “was very a lot an unknown.”
“There was a whole lot of criticism of President Trump and his administration on this however [COVID] was very a lot an unknown. We could not get to the center of what was taking place,” she mentioned. “China was protecting up the problems, the World Well being Group was perpetuating lies and protecting up the data. However now we discover out that it’s certainly a results of a lab leak.”
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As soon as COVID started spreading world wide, Trump took motion to restrict abroad flights.
Biden did as nicely, however the New York Republican mentioned Biden saved these journey restrictions in place lengthy after they wanted to be. The U.S. maintained COVID-travel limits for months after different nation resumed their pre-pandemic journey insurance policies.
“President Trump did put into place Operation Warp Pace to convey us a vaccine, although it was an experimental vaccine, it wasn’t good. It wasn’t mandated. They usually inspired folks to take the vaccine,” Tenney defined.
“However the mandates have been actually the place the issue was. We did not permit docs to really make a patient-client choice, ensuring that they knew that the affected person may or couldn’t tolerate these vaccines, and what was the most effective course of therapy for them,” she continued.
Consultant Claudia Tenney, a Republican from New York, applauded President Donald Trump’s method to the COVID pandemic as he offered data and federal help to states. (Pete Marovich/Bloomberg through Getty Photos)
Tenney added: “However as an alternative, it was this government-knows-all, Joe Biden-knows-all. His administration, based mostly on politics, shut all people down.”
Whereas the Trump administration allowed states to dictate their very own method to the pandemic, the Biden administration “shamed and shunned everybody who questioned” how they ruled.
“So I give Biden lower than an F. And I give President Trump, you recognize, a good rating for not less than making an attempt to determine what was taking place. Vice President Pence issued tips to the states. They weren’t mandates,” the legislator continued.
Passengers stand in line for a Frontier Airways flight at Lengthy Island MacArthur Airport in Ronkonkoma, New York, on February 22, 2023. (Steve Pfost/Newsday RM through Getty Photos)
Whereas not offering a grade for her personal New York management, Tenney confused many actions of the governor exacerbated issues within the state.
“This stuff have been very poorly dealt with by then-Governor Cuomo within the state of New York, which is why we had so many issues, administering the vaccine, getting options out of our state. Our provide chains have been a catastrophe, which is why we could not get private protecting gear to folks. All these items didn’t occur due to insurance policies that have been put in place,” the lawmaker mentioned.
Biden’s first three years in workplace have been a ‘full catastrophe’
The Republican lawmaker recalled Biden’s final three years in workplace as a “full catastrophe” and mentioned she initially guessed he would have wanted “4 years or probably eight” years to make the influence he has already made.
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However, Tenney mentioned, Biden has “almost destroyed and erased all of the good points that we made within the 4 years beneath President Trump.”
“We see our economic system is in free fall. It is a catastrophe,” she defined. “Our worldwide politics is a catastrophe, whether or not it is the debacle that occurred in Afghanistan that undermine our credibility [and] left 13 lifeless service members. [We’re] organising weak point on power. We are actually now not power unbiased. We now are depending on Venezuela [and] Saudi Arabia.”
Tenney’s son is a Marine, so the loss of life of 11 Marine Corps servicemembers was “significantly devastating” for her and different Marine Corps households.
“All of our service members are valuable,” she mentioned. “The sacrifices they make and their households make was fully disregarded by Joe Biden. He mentioned he had no regrets. I imply, these are absurd lies to the American folks.”
She additionally mentioned the Biden administration was persevering with to attempt to negotiate a nuclear cope with Iran, the world’s main sponsor of terrorism.
President Biden pauses whereas he speaks in regards to the scenario in Afghanistan within the East Room of the White Home on August 26, 2021, in Washington, DC. No less than 13 American service members have been killed by suicide bomb assaults close to the Hamid Karzai Worldwide Airport in Kabul, Afghanistan. (Drew Angerer/Getty Photos)
Biden has additionally “been unable to discourage what occurs between Putin, who’s ruthlessly killing and murdering folks in Ukraine, and the Ukrainians are bravely combating for his or her survival,” Tenney mentioned.
She continued: “They are not getting assurances from Joe Biden and never getting the sort of help they want. The American folks want a plan. What are we doing in Ukraine? Why are we spending a lot of American cash and never understanding what the plan is?”
Biden’s international coverage has been “chaos,” she mentioned, and present geo-political crises are so unhealthy that “the Chinese language are intervening.”
“Our allies, Saudi Arabia, even Macron of France, are turning to the Chinese language Communist Celebration,” she added. “It is a catastrophe.”
Looking forward to the 2024 presidential election
As for shifting on from Biden in 2024, Tenney mentioned the American folks “want management now.”
“They do not want a bumbling outdated man who’s incompetent, who has at all times been incompetent on international coverage and each different situation [and] who’s corrupt,” she mentioned, mentioning the Hunter Biden laptop computer scandal, and potential enterprise connections by his son in Ukraine and China.
Potential voters in 2024 are “in search of the sort of America first insurance policies that President Trump introduced,” Tenney claimed. “I feel individuals are in search of sturdy management, competent management.”
“They’re in search of decisive motion, they’re in search of a frontrunner who will stand as much as our enemies stand as much as China, rebuild our economic system, as a result of an important protection that now we have as a nation is a powerful economic system,” she continued, as a result of “when america is powerful and after we’re vibrant on the economic system, the world is extra peaceable.”
Rep. Claudia Tenney, R-N.Y., mentioned she could be open to backing a number of Republicans within the 2024 presidential election. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Name, Inc through Getty Photos)
The consultant mentioned there have been “a whole lot of actually nice candidates” amongst Republicans, together with those that have already introduced their candidacies like former President Trump, Nikki Haley and Vivek Ramaswamy.
She additionally recommended potential candidates who haven’t but formally tossed their names into the operating, like Gov. Ron DeSantis, Gov. Kristi Noem and Mike Pompeo.
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“President Trump may be very sturdy. He is acquired nice insurance policies. He was probably the greatest presidents within the trendy period,” she mentioned. “He did an exquisite job and saved us from Hillary Clinton and the third time period of Obama. He saved us from what I might say could be the close to whole collapse of what now we have in preserving our constitutional republic.”
“We have got a whole lot of nice potential Republican candidates” who’re “on the market having our dialog across the points that matter to Individuals, not speaking about all the rubbish that the Democrats speak about,” she mentioned.
“We have to have anyone sturdy with conservative values, who cares about America and can convey our nation again from the brink as a result of I really feel like we’re very, very near shedding our constitutional republic,” the Republican cautioned.
Regardless of the reward for a number of Republican candidates, Tenney mentioned she had not but selected who she could be endorsing for the first election. She could achieve this at a later time.
“I’ll endorse most likely finally,” she advised Fox Information Digital. “I endorsed President Trump in 2016. Although, initially, I used to be a [Sen. Ted] Cruz supporter.”
Former President Donald Trump arrives to Trump Tower on April 13, 2023, in New York Metropolis. (James Devaney/GC Photos)
“I like a whole lot of the issues that President Trump stands for, however I might prefer to see the place we’re gonna go together with all these authorized issues,” the lawmaker mentioned. The previous president faces ongoing litigation together with Manhattan District Legal professional Alvin Bragg’s pursuit of prison expenses and extra fraud expenses from New York Legal professional Normal Letitia James. “Democrats are simply making an attempt to destroy him.”
She mentioned she could be open to supporting one other candidate, ought to the get together go in one other path.
“I might truly help any of the Republican candidates which might be on the market. I feel all of them would do a wonderful job,” Tenney concluded. “And I feel all of them would beat Joe Biden.”
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And, she mentioned, defeating Biden is one thing Republicans should do.
Tenney is a congresswoman representing the twenty fourth Congressional District of New York since 2016. After shedding her first re-election, she was elected again to workplace in 2020, the place she says she prioritizes being clear along with her constituents by explaining complicated payments and by defending every of her votes.
