Democrats accuse GOP of new lows in culture wars
| Democrats say Republicans are hitting a new low with their recent attacks on President Biden — including a recent false recent narrative about the president taking away their hamburgers.
The conspiracy theory that Biden wants to ban beef gained steam in Republican circles and conservative media in the last week, fanned by lawmakers such as Rep. Lauren Boebert (Colo.) who accused Democrats of wanting “to limit us to about four pounds [of beef] a year.” The false claim was sparked by a report in the Daily Mail, a tabloid based in Great Britain, that said Biden’s climate plan could limit burger consumption to one a month per person. Biden’s actual climate plan makes no such recommendation; the claim appears to come from a study unrelated to the White House that is itself based on a hypothetical question. |
