The negative consequences of the Biden Administration’s border policy were downplayed by Morning Joe contributor Steve Rattner on Thursday morning, despite the fact that the chart he presented was unambiguously incriminating.
Rattner is a contributing writer to The New York Times Op Ed page and serves as the Economic Analyst on MSNBC’s Morning Joe.
He recently published a “Year in Charts” essay, which compiles a collection of charts that breakdown the most significant events of 2024.
Rattner initiated the discussion with a positive assessment of the current state of the US economy, taking into account the election of the previous year.
Morning Joe host Jonathan Lemire commented that Trump had inherited a robust economy from President Barack Obama and is now “replicating it” from Joe Biden, who did oversee significant growth.
Rattner was remarkably lenient toward the Biden administration as the segment progressed to immigration, despite the fact that the data indicates a more calamitous outcome. The segment progressively became less laudatory of Biden as time went on.
“The border was not Biden’s finest moment, frankly. You can see what happened here. And Trump is not wrong when he talks about how border crossings work quite low. They’re running about 74,000 a month when he left office and they, in fact, did shoot up.” Ratner said.
“Some of it was some things Biden said and some ways that they put a moratorium, for example, on deportations. But in fact, we did get up here almost to 300,000 a month. But what maybe people don’t entirely know is that border crossings have come back down almost to where they were under Trump. They’re running at about 100,000 at the moment. So we went up the hill and we went down the hill. But unfortunately, that was pretty costly to Biden during the election.” he added.
Morning Joe did not pay much attention to the significant increase in unlawful border crossings that occurred during the Biden administration.
Instead, it dedicated a significant portion of its limited airtime to arguing that Trump’s reelection would pose a fascist and authoritarian threat to the nation. In fairness, some of that commentary was justified.
Rattner, an economic expert, is noteworthy for his assertion that “Trump is not wrong” in reference to border policies and the rhetoric of the former president.
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