Biden reportedly exploded at staff over handling of border crisis: ‘Scary issue with no solutions’
By Social Links for Isabel Keane
Published Feb. 12, 2024, 12:31 p.m. ET
President Biden recently exploded in rage at aides over the border crisis, demanding obscure immigration data and erupting when they couldn’t immediately produce it — underscoring how tense the issue has become in the administration, a new report says.
Those in attendance at the volatile meeting aboard Air Force One in late January later vented that Biden’s frustrations over the issue have made it increasingly difficult to reach decisions about the border, Axios said Monday.
“There are definite incentives … to not be the person who owns the scary issue with no solutions,” a source said.
“If you’re the person briefing the president, you get to piss him off every day,” the source said.
Adding to the debacle is the fact that Vice President Kamala Harris has missed “an opportunity” to demonstrate her leadership during the crisis, sources said.
“She’s been at best ineffective, and at worst sporadically engaged and not seeing it was her responsibility,” a former senior Biden administration official told the outlet. “It’s an opportunity for her, a
nd she didn’t fill the breach.”“She’s been at best ineffective, and at worst sporadically engaged and not seeing it was her responsibility,” a former senior Biden administration official told the outlet. “It’s an opportunity for her, and she didn’t fill the breach.”
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