But White House spokesman Josh Earnest stopped short of saying that President Barack Obama would veto a government funding bill that included the crude oil measure. And that is – that is both ironic and tragic.
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“Our position on that (measure) is firm – we oppose it – but we also oppose other things that have been floated for possible inclusion in the omnibus”, Earnest said. “And those recommendations will include making sure we are doing everything we can to keep guns out of the wrong hands, including through expanding background checks”. “The FBI put out information a week or so ago that [on] Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving when many people go shopping, they actually processed the largest number of background checks for gun purchases in history”. The debate over guns has heated up again after the deadly mass shooting in San Bernardino.
Republicans will freak out as soon as the President announces his executive actions, but the vast majority of the American people are likely going to support his executive orders.
“And so it’s tragic that even in the situation where we have lots of guns on the streets that lead to lots of innocent Americans being killed, that the response to that is that a whole lot more guns end up on the streets”.
“The fact that there aren’t, when you combine the numbers … there aren’t more than 150,000 troops on the ground in Iraq and Afghanistan, I think is an indication that our priorities are oriented in a direction that better reflects our national security interests”, said Earnest. “That’s tragic and ironic”.
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“So, given the congressional inaction, the question that’s been raised is what more can the Obama administration do, and that’s the substance of this review”, he said.
