White House hits Britt for ‘debunked lies’ in State of the Union rebuttal
by Brett Samuels - 03/10/24 10:14 AM ET
The White House on Sunday chastised Sen. Katie Britt (R-Ala.) after multiple news organizations fact-checked a portion of her rebuttal to President Biden’s State of the Union in which she told the story of a migrant who was sexually abused.
“Instead of telling more debunked lies to justify opposing the toughest bipartisan border legislation in modern history, Senator Britt should stop choosing human smugglers and fentanyl traffickers over our national security and the Border Patrol Union,” deputy press secretary Andrew Bates said in a statement. “Like President Biden said in his State of the Union, ‘We have a simple choice: We can fight about fixing the border or we can fix it.’”
Britt used much of her rebuttal to slam Biden over his handling of the southern border. To illustrate her point, she described how she met a woman at the U.S.-Mexico border who recounted being raped thousands of times in a sex trafficking operation run by cartels, starting at age 12.
“We wouldn’t be OK with this happening in a third-world country. This is the United States of America, and it’s past time we start acting like it,” Britt said in the Thursday night speech. “President Biden’s border crisis is a disgrace.”
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