Senator Mitt Romney (Republican of Utah) criticized President Biden in his State of the Union address on Thursday evening for his “cheap attacks” on Republicans.
Romney praised the foreign policy aspects of Biden’s speech, in which the president spoke, for example, about the importance of helping Ukraine and providing humanitarian aid to Gaza.
However, the senator from Utah was not a fan of the president’s domestic policy and his criticism of Republican lawmakers.
Romney pointed to “promises” that Biden cannot keep because he cannot count on Republican support in Congress. He also accused the commander-in-chief of falsely claiming that members of the Republican conference were discussing cutting social programs.
“When he turned to domestic policy, I’m afraid it was the same old liberal script, at least that’s how I saw it,” Romney said in a video posted after the speech on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter.
“I mean, there were some new chapters, but the same idea, which is, ‘Here are some things I’m going to give you, here are some more things I’m going to give you, here’s why I’m going to go after big corporations and rich people,’ and I think people are tired of that. They know he can’t keep all of these promises because he needs Republican votes for every promise, and he’s not going to get Republican votes for these things.”
Romney said some of Biden’s criticism of Republican lawmakers was misguided because no GOP member in either chamber spoke about the Social Security address.
“And I think they also know that the cheap attacks on Republicans probably don’t hit the mark,” Romney said in the video. “You know, he once again claimed that Republicans are going to cut Social Security. That’s just wrong. And everybody knows that there isn’t a Republican in the House or the Senate who talks about cutting Social Security or is for cutting it. That’s just wrong.”
From the senator’s perspective, Biden’s biggest mistake of the evening was not addressing the debt burden, which exceeded the $34 trillion mark for the first time earlier this year.
“I think the biggest mistake was that he never really talked about how we’re going to deal with the deficit and the debt,” Romney said. “But then again, Democrats don’t like to do that.”
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