Joe Biden’s First Six Months in Office. Here’s What We Know

Record-breaking inflation. A raging crisis at the southern border. Surging crime across the country. This week marked Joe Biden and Kamala Harris’ first six months in office, and millions of Americans are already suffering the consequences of their failed leadership.

Joe Biden proved he doesn’t prioritize the middle class. This administration’s stifling economic policies, coupled with their big-spending agenda, has led to 2008 levels of inflation that is cutting into working-class Americans’ paychecks. 

Joe Biden and Kamala Harris’ excessive spending package also led to a nationwide worker shortage that has left many small businesses struggling. At the CNN town hall, one restaurant owner asked the president what the White House is planning to do to help. Biden meandered about COVID relief funds and a $15 minimum wage in response, ultimately telling the owner, “I think your business and the tourist business is really going to be in a bind for a little while.”

“I don’t know that he [Biden] fully understands the challenges we are facing,” another restaurant owner said in light of the exchange.

While workers are paying for Biden’s economic agenda, border communities are feeling the impact of the White House’s open border policies. Last week, Customs and Border Patrol announced that the agency has made more than 1 million arrests at the southern border this fiscal year. 

Several Republican Senators hammered the administration’s push to give illegal immigrants amnesty through reconciliation while failing to secure the border.

Violent crime is also surging as Democrats attempt to distance themselves from “defund the police” messaging they have been pushing for the last year. 

NPR: “Many small cities that typically have relatively few murders are seeing significant increases over last year. Killings in Albuquerque, N.M., Austin, Texas, and Pittsburgh, for example, have about doubled so far in 2021, while Portland, Ore., has had five times as many murders compared to last year, according to data compiled by Jeff Asher, a crime data analyst and co-founder of AH Datalytics.

“Most cities in the United States, including each of those named above, have a Democratic mayor. After protests last year over police violence against Black Americans — notably the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis — there has been a push from the left to ‘defund’ police departments.”

Whitney Robertson, America Rising PAC Press Secretary: “We are six months into the Biden-Harris administration, and the only growth Americans have experienced is in crime, inflation, and the number of migrants trying to cross the border. The last six months is proof that Americans cannot afford more of the Democrats’ devastating agenda.”