The White House insisted on Wednesday that President Joe Biden There was not enough time to address issues such as the withdrawal from Afghanistan and the 13 US service members killed in the attack on the Capitol on January 6.
'Look, a speech like the State of the Union is very important. It doesn't touch – it doesn't have time to touch everything that is priority,' saki told MSNBC on Wednesday morning that when asked why Biden never mentioned the Capital riots.
Republican House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy said Biden's speech was void to offer a solution.
He said, 'I haven't heard of one solution to all the problems he started Fox News on Wednesday.
In the GOP backlash against Biden's comments, McCarthy continued, "They didn't give you a solution to the inflation created by your $2 trillion bill, they didn't give a solution to the limit."
Biden also did not address his embroiled return from Afghanistan at any point in his hour-long speech on Tuesday evening.
Colorado GOP Representative Lauren Boebert is digging her heels on Wednesday amid an onslaught of bipartisan criticism for Biden's State of the Union address while referring to her late son Beau.
Boebert wrote on Twitter, 'On the left is the p***ed as I called for the failed return of Biden from Afghanistan, leaving behind 13 of America's finest coffins.
'They are mad because a speech was 'interrupted'. Ask families who have lost loved ones how disrupted their lives are now,' she said.
Press Secretary Jen Psaki said on Wednesday that President Joe Biden had "no time" to touch on every topic during his one-hour State of the Union address.
Republicans are furious at not mentioning the 13 American soldiers killed in the withdrawal from Afghanistan. Rep. Lauren Boebert (left) and Rep. Marjorie Taylor Green (right) slammed the president at several points during their big speech on Tuesday night
C-SPAN released a graphic showing the run-times of the first State of the Union addresses of the last seven presidents. Biden averaged in the middle of the pack with 62 minutes, while Donald Trump topped the list with 80 minutes and George HW Bush was at the bottom with 35 minutes.
Initially seen as a victory for the administration in ending the 20-year war, Afghanistan turned into a disaster for Biden when the Taliban quickly captured Kabul and forced American troops out of their time frame. and 13 died as a result. American service member.
The State Department was also unable to help get the allies out of Afghanistan, except for many who have harmed the US over the years as terrorist organizations increasingly overrun the country.
Biden was further lambasted after his return as the remains of soldiers were transferred home and the president brought his flag-draped coffins back to American soil, repeatedly checking his watch during the ceremony.
Congressman Boebert earned 'boos' from the chamber of the House during Biden's remarks on Tuesday evening as he was talking about cancer-causing burn pits affecting military service members.
Biden believes that such potholes led to Beau's early death at age 46.
Boebert defended himself earlier on Tuesday evening, writing on Twitter that 'I can't keep quiet when Biden says flag-wrapped coffin.'
The address, which lasted roughly an hour, included bipartisan applause as well as loud laughter from Boebert and his fellow GOP representative from Georgia, Marjorie Taylor Green.
Psaki also lashed out at Boebert and Georgia Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene on Wednesday, calling Biden's State of the Union address "a lot more about them" than the president's agenda.
Boebert, a Colorado Republican, doubled down on his controversial remarks during Biden's State of the Union address in a new tweet Wednesday morning.
Senate Minority Whip John Thune, the number two Senate Republican behind leader Mitch McConnell, denounced the pair's "antics" during a CBS Mornings interview the day after Biden's speech.
'I don't think there's a place for it. this is unfair. The State of the Union speech, whether you agree with the president or not, is an opportunity to show the American people the respect the office deserves,' Thune said.
The South Dakota Republican was cryptic when asked whether his fellow GOP lawmakers would issue a public condemnation.
'You know, normally the House would, you know, do – if any steps were to be taken, the leadership of the House would probably do that. But I think there will be a lot of condemnation from people, colleagues and what not, and there will be just a recognition that such actions are inappropriate in this kind of setting,' he said.
'And I think anyone would agree.'
Democrat Representative Eric Swellwell called Boebert and Green an "disgrace" and called on House GOP leader Kevin McCarthy to condemn them.
'The President was talking about his dead soldier son. you and [Greene] Tonight was a national disgrace. But even worse – because you're irrelevant – Kevin McCarthy is the boss of it all. He won't condemn you because he's a huge coward,' Swellwell wrote on Twitter on Tuesday.
Psaki shrugs off Boebert and Greene's behavior, says it says 'a lot more about them' than Biden's agenda
McCarthy has remained silent on the matter so far, although he did give a standing ovation to Biden at one point during his speech, when he called for betting on police funding.
Asked about it on MSNBC Tuesday morning, Psaki dismissed Boebert's protest.
The press secretary said on television on Wednesday morning, "I have to tell you that during the uproar that I was watching on TV with my team, a group of team members and colleagues, and we were all excited and excited. " Interview.
'And that was the moment the President was talking about his unity agenda, and talking about the priorities that we should all agree on.'
The president's four-pronged unity agenda, which he laid out on Tuesday night, includes efforts to do more for veterans who fall ill after inhaling fumes from toxic burn pits that have been taken abroad. Commonly used by deployed soldiers for disposal of garbage.
"They come home, many of the fittest in the world and the best trained warriors in the world, are never the same," Biden grieved before seeing the effects of his own personal experience.
'Headache. Numbness. Dizziness. A Cancer that would put them in a coffin wrapped in flags. I know.'
Senator John Thune of South Dakota, the number two Senate Republican, slammed the new lawmakers' antics.
California Democrat Representative Eric Swellwell also jumped into the fray, calling Boebert a 'national disgrace'
At the same time Boebert shouted: 'A cancer that put him in a coffin wrapped in a flag.'
'You put them in. Thirteen of them!' She shouted in reference to the 13 US service members killed during the security of Kabul airport in Afghanistan last year.
"There is no question that we should do more to help our country's veterans who have been hurt by the effects of the burn pits," Saki said on Wednesday morning. Of course, we need to do more to work together to cure cancer.'
'And they were circling around that time and the moment. I think about how important these priorities are, and that the vast majority of people sitting in that chamber last night speaks volumes about them far more than they can work together to solve those problems,' the press secretary added.
Unlike other points in Biden's speech, which earned bipartisan applause, Boebert's outburst drew only boos from Democrats.
Both Boebert and Georgia Representative Greene turned their backs on Biden as he entered the House chamber for his State of the Union address.
At another point during the speech, when the president called for sweeping reform to solve the Southwest border crisis and the US immigration system, the firebrands used one of Donald Trump's signature promises to 'build the wall' to conservatives. could be heard.
