Who’s the president? Because it’s apparently not Joe Biden

Published April 20, 2021 6:19pm ET



Joe Biden may be the president in name, but with the White House directly contradicting his proclamations twice in as many days and his notable absence from greeting Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga, one has to ask: Who is actually running the country?

With border crossings at their highest in 15 years and record numbers of child migrants flooding overcrowded facilities, it is abundantly clear that the country faces a crisis, and at last, Biden conceded as such. During a weekend round of golf, he defended delaying an increase in refugees accepted to the country because his administration had to deal with “the crisis that ended up on the border with young people.”

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