As we told you yesterday, White House press secretary Jen Psaki said that the Biden administration’s definition of “opening schools” amounts to “50 percent of schools open at least one day per week by April 30th.”
Lowering the bar: Jen Psaki explains what President Biden means by 'opening schools,' and it's not impressive https://t.co/jCh1Z1yFfd
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) February 9, 2021
Today a reporter followed up on Psaki’s comment from yesterday, and she doubled down while using words to describe the goal that are so laughable that this comes with a beverage warning:
WH Press Sec Jen Psaki calls the WH school reopening plan (50% of schools reopened in person 1 day a week) a "a bold and ambitious agenda for how we’re going to measure ourselves and progress.
1 day a week seems like the floor for saying that schools will be reopened(Fixed typo)
— Abby D. Phillip (@abbydphillip) February 10, 2021
Question: Why is the Biden administration setting the bar so low for school re-openings? @PressSec's answer: It's part of "a bold and ambitious agenda" for measuring progress.
What?? pic.twitter.com/NubSgrNIp9
— John Cooper (@thejcoop) February 10, 2021
“Bold and ambitious”? LOL.
“Bold and ambitious,” the Dem operative acting as a spox for the WH said of opening schools one day a week. https://t.co/LbXLZE4dd4
— kaitlin, holy RINO batman (@thefactualprep) February 10, 2021
A “bold and ambitious agenda” – it’s literally the least you could possibly do. https://t.co/WrGmGTf2Th
— Ashe Short (@AsheSchow) February 10, 2021
That might only be considered “bold and ambitious” to teacher’s union leadership, but not to anybody else.
Has anyone asked them what share of schools are open by this metric now? How do you just create a goal without knowing or telling people where we are now? https://t.co/et4UkdbBTZ
— Patrick Brennan (@ptbrennan11) February 10, 2021
None of Biden's school reopening plan is science-based. None of it. https://t.co/oalM8ZTany
— Natalie Johnson (@nataliejohnsonn) February 10, 2021
And yet you guys aren't in fits of hysterics over her clearly moving the goalposts right to your faces. Weird right?
(How Refreshing) https://t.co/kHfEaLboBM
— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) February 10, 2021
'bold and ambitious' is putting a man on mars
opening 50% of schools one day a week is a broken promise to American voters. https://t.co/HmWU0Efyz9
— Michael Young (@Mikeyoung88) February 10, 2021
What happened to Biden going to let science drive the decisions? This extreme walk back by @PressSec sure seems like teacher’s unions are driving the agenda. https://t.co/aw86e24pe8
— Bradley Cox (@BradleyCoxAL) February 10, 2021
With a straight face she said this? https://t.co/s49kJUMbMo
— Josh Culling (@jmculling) February 10, 2021
SHE IS LYING.
We already have achieved that number.
Would be nice if journalists actually caught up to this fact sometime before April. Geez. https://t.co/yoBYCPrYCX
— Pradheep J. Shanker (@Neoavatara) February 10, 2021
This White House seems to know that many “journalists” are just their stenographers.
