Raimondo Admits Biden’s Executive Order on Reproductive Health Has Little Impact
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Raimondo Admits Biden’s Executive Order on Reproductive Health Has Little Impact
Upon pushback from “Meet the Press” host Chuck Todd, however, she admitted the order has minimal impact, following the Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade.
GET THE LATEST BREAKING NEWS HERE -- SIGN UP FOR GOLOCAL FREE DAILY EBLAST“I first fell in love with Senator Biden way back when he was fighting for the Violence Against Women Act — I was an intern at the Department of Justice,” said former Rhode Island Governor Raimondo. “This is a guy who has devoted decades to working to help women, to provide women’s and he just signed the Executive Order to preserve women’s healthcare and reproductive rights.”
“What does that order do other than tell everybody to follow the law? It looks like a glorified press release,” Todd interjected.
“Well, you know you put your finger on an issue — a lot of things that are coming the President’s way, he doesn’t have a silver bullet to solve,” said Raimondo. “These issues have to be solved by Congress, or in this case the Supreme Court and Congress.”
Raimondo argued that the essentially symbolic gesture had merit, however.
“So he’s doing what a good executive does — which is go to his team and say, ‘Give me every option, every tool in my toolbox' — and that’s what this executive order does. He’s pushing the limits of his authority to stand up for women who’ve had that right taken away,” said Raimondo.
Raimondo on People "Talking Themselves" Into a Recession
Todd started off the segment by asking Raimondo what she had to say to the fact that three-quarters of the country feel like the country’s heading in the wrong direction.
“Specifically I think it's inflation, so you know look — obviously it's it's frustrating,” said Raimondo. “You know if you were to ask me what do I think of the economy, I’d say we have a very strong economy — you know unemployment is down, we've recovered all the jobs since lost in the pandemic, people's household balance sheets are strong. However when you go to the grocery store prices are high, when you fill up your car at the tank prices are high and so consumers — Americans — are feeling that and I think that is largely the reason folks say as you said we're headed in the wrong direction."
“I was just talking to a CEO of a big company and asking him as I always do, talking to people, you know what do you think about the economy and he said the economy's strong, customers are buying, businesses are strong, people are adding jobs,” said Raimondo. “He said we're trying to talk ourselves into a recession and I agree with that — you know I think fundamentally the economy is strong.”