With just over a month left in office, top members of President Biden’s The administration stands by their previous statements expressing support for his leadership and their belief that he remains fit for office – despite a year of controversy and debate over Biden’s ability to serve out his term.
Fox News Digital reached out to Cabinet officials and their departments and asked them whether they believed President Biden was fit to serve, and whether they supported previous statements of confidence in his ability to continue.
DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said in a statement in September that he “has full confidence in President Biden’s ability to do his job.
“As I have said before, I am fully prepared for my meetings with President Biden, knowing that his questions will be detailed, probing and demanding. In our conversations, the president always uses our previous conversations and past events to analyze. the issues and reaching its conclusions,” he said.
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On Monday, DHS said that the secretary stands by these comments.
President Joe Biden attends the US National Christmas Tree Lighting held outside the White House on December 5, 2024 in Washington, DC. (Getty Images)
Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo has called Biden “one of the most accomplished presidents in American history and continues to effectively lead our country with a steady hand.”
“As someone who is actually in the room when the president meets with the Cabinet and foreign leaders, I can tell you that he is an astute and extraordinary leader,” Raimondo said.
A spokesperson said this week that Raimondo stands by those comments.
Sabrina Singh, deputy Pentagon The press secretary told Fox in September: “As Secretary Austin has said before, he has seen President Biden make tough national security decisions and his commitment to keeping our troops safe – he has nothing but complete confidence in our commander in chief.”
This week, Singh said those comments still stand.
Biden’s mental acuity was a subject of speculation even before he was sworn in, but debate over its implications came to a head this year after what was widely seen as a disastrous debate performance against former President Donald Trump that seemingly set off the process brought to replace him. on the Democratic ticket in the race for president.
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Biden ultimately dropped out of the race and handed over the nomination Vice President Kamala Harris, who in turn would lose in the November elections against newly elected President Trump. But even though Biden said he would not seek re-election, he chose not to resign.
The topic of Biden’s acumen came up again in September when he handed over control of a Cabinet meeting to first lady Jill Biden. But it was then that Cabinet members backed Biden and said they were not concerned about his ability to serve.
U.S. First Lady Jill Biden speaks while attending her first Cabinet meeting of her husband President Joe Biden’s administration at the White House on September 20, 2024 in Washington, DC. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
Secretary of Health and Human Services Xavier Becerra— one of Biden’s staunch defenders — said Biden “has done more for this country as president than any other president I have worked with since 1992.”
“So yes, not only can he do the job, but he has done it,” he said in a statement to Fox News Digital. ‘And we are fortunate to have someone who continues to use all his experience to take us further. If you remember where we were four years ago, the depth of a pandemic, Americans are losing their jobs, Americans are losing their health care. Today, more Americans are employed than ever before. Today, more Americans have health care coverage than ever before. No president in the history of this country has ever put 700 million vaccines in the arms of Americans to keep them alive and healthy. The result? Our economy is healthy.”
“Is he fit? He’s proving it,” Becerra added.
An HHS spokesperson said Becerra’s comments stand.
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Spokespeople for other agencies that previously commented, including the Environmental Protection Agency, the Department of Energy and the Department of Agriculture, also said they stood by those comments.
As things stand now, President Biden will end his term on January 20, when President-elect Trump is sworn in.
President Joe Biden and his successor, newly elected President Donald Trump. (Brandon Bell/Getty Images; Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
Biden spoke this week a DNC celebrating the holidays in Washington, D.C. During his remarks, he argued that the country is in a “staggeringly” better position today than when he and Harris entered the White House.
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“The one thing I have always believed about public service, and especially about the presidency, is the importance of asking yourself: Have we left the country in a better state than we found it? Today I can say with every fiber of my being: With all my heart, the answer to that question is a resounding yes,” he said.
He then encouraged his employees to “stay involved” in the years to come.
“You’re not going anywhere, boy,” Biden said of Harris. “Because we won’t let you do that.”
