Ep. 570 - No. Joe Biden DID NOT allocate $30 million for new crack pipes in the Black community
The Breakdown with Shaun King
The North Star
4.8 • 12.6K Ratings
🗓️ 9 February 2022
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
Here's the thing - Joe Biden makes enough actual mistakes for us to critique. We don't need to make this up.
This past December, public health EXPERTS in his administration announced $30 million for VERY EFFECTIVE harm reduction programs in communities impacted by drug addiction and the opioid crisis. I've studied these programs right here in New York and they are saving lives and making a HUGE difference.
Lastly, that $30 million may seem like a lot, but when funding a national program, it's next to nothing. The federal budget funds TRILLIONS of dollars of programs.
Please be careful when sharing misinformation. It happens WAY too easily nowadays.
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| 0:00.0 | Listen, there's a major lie that I have to correct because the lie that spreading is actually very harmful |
| 0:09.0 | I was about to say it's dumb, but |
| 0:12.5 | We fall so easily for bad misinformation and yesterday |
| 0:18.5 | multiple |
| 0:19.6 | blogs and social media accounts |
| 0:21.6 | We're flaming Joe Biden for saying that he was going to give 30 million dollars to black people for new crack pipes |
| 0:31.1 | It's a complete fabrication and |
| 0:34.0 | It's not only a gross |
| 0:36.8 | misunderstanding of what that money actually is going to do |
| 0:39.8 | But I know the people who fought for what that money is going to do and it's really really good for our communities |
| 0:46.9 | Let me unpack and explain it. Let me tell the truth. You know, I'm not a Joe Biden fan |
| 0:51.6 | But that's one of those harmful lies that doesn't do any of us any good. It's just Sean King and you are listening to |
| 0:57.7 | The break down |
| 1:16.4 | Now you'd be hard pressed to find somebody that's hit Joe Biden harder and more consistently particularly somebody on the left |
| 1:23.4 | You'd be hard pressed to find somebody that's done that for longer and more frequently than I have I have even today |
| 1:32.2 | 100 critiques that I could rattle off the top of the dome about Joe Biden |
| 1:37.0 | But people are spreading something that's particularly harmful and |
| 1:42.3 | Some people thought it was funny, but they were but other people saw it and were like, oh hell no not my tax money |
| 1:47.9 | In December the Biden administration |
| 1:53.5 | Announced that they were going to dedicate 30 million dollars which again federal budgets |
| 2:00.8 | Often go into the trillions of dollars, okay? |
| 2:04.9 | They announced that they were going to spend not 30 billion not 30 trillion not 300 million |
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