Full Video: Pentagon Press Sec. Maj. Gen. Pat Ryder Holds U.S. Department Of Defense Press Briefing

Posted • June 19, 2024: The Biden administration's decision to spend $230 million worth of hardworking Americans' tax dollars on a "humanitarian pier" off the coast of Gaza seemed ill-advised from the start. Predictably, the pier was a target of Iran-backed terrorists in the region and rough weather repeatedly damaged the pier or made it necessary to move the pier to protected waters off Israel's coast. While it was always described as a "temporary" piece of infrastructure that was supposed to facilitate the delivery of humanitarian aid to residents of the enclave, the pier is now slated to be dismantled months earlier than initially anticipated as it has utterly failed to do what Biden said it would and only continues to endanger American service members.

According to a New York Times report on the latest Biden blunder, the administration "initially predicted that it would be September before surging seas would make the pier inoperable...But military officials are now warning aid organizations that the project could be dismantled as early as next month." What's more, the pier "has been in service only about 10 days" since it entered use on May 17 and the "rest of the time, it was being repaired after rough seas broke it apart, detached to avoid further damage or paused because of security concerns." One such instance of weather-induced damage came with a $22 million repair bill, also footed by American taxpayers. As Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD) Senior Advisor Richard Goldberg noted in an FDD release this week, Biden's pier "was political, not practical" and "never made a lot of sense to do it this way." (…)

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U.S. Department of Defense: June 18, 2024 - Pentagon Press Secretary Maj. Gen. Pat Ryder Holds a Press Briefing
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