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President Biden's tenure in the White House expires in January, and political insiders from both sides of the aisle believe the remaining six months of his lame-duck presidency will consist largely of the same routine and "absolutely nothing."
Former Democrat presidential candidate Tulsi Gabbard, who represented Hawaii's 2nd Congressional District in the House from 2013 to 2021, said she sees little change coming Americans' way in the next six months, insisting Biden "hasn't been the one making decisions" on key issues all along.
"Clearly, President Biden hasn’t been the one making decisions on our country’s domestic and foreign policy for the last three and a half years," she said. "The same unelected people running the country with Biden as their figurehead will continue to do so for as long as he is in office and with Kamala Harris, if she’s elected."
Julian Epstein, an attorney and former chief counsel to Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee, told Fox News Digital he believes there is "almost nothing" Biden will be able to accomplish in the months and days before the inauguration.
"There is almost nothing that Biden can achieve in the next six months, other than treading water and maintaining the status quo," he said. "If the White House were smart, it would double down on its support for Israel and make clear that the Democrats understand moral clarity on fighting what is in effect the Ku Klux Klan on the banks of the Mediterranean."
American Majority CEO and founder Ned Ryun echoed Epstein's assessment, saying he believes there's "absolutely nothing" Biden will be able to accomplish in the shadows of Harris' presidential campaign.
"First, there’s no way anyone on either side of the aisle would want to push the envelope as they have their own re-elections to worry about," Ryan said. "[Senate Majority Leader] Chuck Schumer would never let anything overtly problematic come to the floor in the Senate because it’s a terrible map already; he doesn’t need to make it even harder for them to try and hold majority."
"So Biden will achieve precisely nothing, except via executive orders, as he’s beyond a lame-duck president and shouldn’t even still be in office," he added.
Fox News Digital's Kyle Morris contributed to this update.
Liberal media outlets have begun pushing a new talking point as the Democratic presumptive nominee, Kamala Harris, marches toward Election Day: The vice president was never President Biden's "border czar."
Outlets, including Time Magazine, USA Today, The New York Times, New York Daily News, and Newsweek, all echoed similar sentiments, suggesting that the unofficial title was "misleading" and inaccurate.
However, their claims are, at best, puzzling, considering that some of those same publications referred to Harris as the "border czar" or something similar in reporting that dates back to early 2021.
Axios drew particular criticism over a piece that seemed to contradict its own previous reporting, and it even updated its own story Wednesday by saying it "incorrectly" called her a border czar in the past.
"The Trump campaign and Republicans have tagged Harris repeatedly with the 'border czar' title — which she never actually had," reporter Stef Kight wrote on Wednesday.
Critics pointed out Axios reported in 2021 that Harris was "appointed by Biden as border czar." Another 2021 Axios report, by Kight herself, was headlined, "Biden puts Harris in charge of border crisis."
Left-leaning fact-checker PolitiFact also got in on the action, calling a Republican claim about her being the border czar "mostly false" and part of an effort to "link her" to her own administration's immigration policy.
Past reporting from media outlets across the political spectrum and comments from Biden himself appear to link Harris to the administration's immigration plans unambiguously.
Harris was tasked early on in the Biden administration with addressing the root causes of mass migration from Central and South America. That part of her portfolio has emerged as a cornerstone of GOP-led attacks against the de facto Democratic presidential nominee, as states across the country continue to struggle with the migrant crisis.
In a March 24, 2021, video, Biden said that Harris was "leading the effort to coordinate with Mexico and other Northern Triangle nations to address issues such as the surge of migrants at the U.S.-Mexico border."
Fox News Digital's Nikolas Lanum contributed to this update.
Crowds descended on the nation's capital Wednesday to protest Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's visit, and many wanted to know where Vice President Kamala Harris stands on the conflict now that she is the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee.
"She's no different from Biden on this issue, she's no different from anybody else," Nikolai from Ohio told Fox News Digital. "We're going down to the lesser evil-ism. Trump will be 100%. She'll be 99.9, you know what I mean?"
Thousands of protesters swarmed the National Mall ahead of Netanyahu's address to Congress, calling for the foreign leader's arrest and an end to U.S. support for Israel's war in Gaza. Harris skipped Netanyahu's speech but is expected to meet privately with the Israeli leader at the White House.
Several people erected a large effigy of Netanyahu with devil horns, blood pouring from his mouth and a bomb clutched in his hand. Others chanted slogans like "Intifada revolution" and "from the river to the sea," danced, burned flags and waved posters with mugshot-style images of Netanyahu's face. U.S. Capitol Police made numerous arrests.
"I want Israel to be dismantled," Christine from Virginia said earlier in the day when asked what outcome she hoped to see in the Middle East. "That's about it."
Other protesters hoped for a two-state solution.
Many attendees told Fox News Digital Netanyahu is a "war criminal" who "belongs in jail" and were skeptical that Harris would be harsher on Israel if elected president.
"I really hate her," Elise from Virginia said. "I am both pro-life and pro-Palestine, and she is against both of those things. So to me, she's just into a double genocide."
Fox News Digital's Gabriel Hays, Jeffrey Clark and Hannah Ray Lambert contributed to this update.
Sales of Vice President Kamala Harris' 2019 memoir have skyrocketed in recent days, following her ascension to the top of the Democratic ticket to take on former President Donald Trump in the 2024 presidential election.
"The Truths We Hold: An American Journey " currently ranks at No. 1 among female biographies on Amazon. It's No. 2 among all biographies, behind Republican vice presidential candidate JD Vance's 2016 personal memoir, "Hillbilly Elegy."
"This book is not meant to be a policy platform, much less a 50-point plan," Harris wrote in the preface.
"Instead, it is a collection of ideas and viewpoints and stories, from my life and from the lives of the many people I've met along the way."
Harris was born in Oakland, California, in October 1964, to immigrant parents.
"My father, Donald Harris, was born in Jamaica in 1938," Harris wrote. "He was a brilliant student who immigrated to the United States after being admitted to the University of California at Berkeley."
Her dad is a professor emeritus of economics at Stanford University today.
"My mother’s life began thousands of miles to the east, in southern India," wrote Harris. "Shyamala Gopalan was the oldest of four children … Like my father, she was a gifted student."
The vice president’s mother also studied at Berkeley, and became a doctor of endocrinology and breast cancer researcher. She died in 2009.
In the book, Harris describes how her parents shaped her politics while participating in the civil rights movement.
"My parents often brought me in a stroller with them to civil rights marches … Social justice was a central part of our discussions," she wrote.
Her father was part of a network of leftist activist friends in Berkeley and San Francisco political circles. Among them: Lateefah Simon, a Bay Area social justice warrior and 2024 congressional candidate.
"Lateefah was a genius," Harris wrote. "In 2003, she became the youngest woman to ever win the prestigious MacArthur ‘Genius’ award."
Simon today sits on the Bay Area Rapid Transport board of directors and has enjoyed leadership positions with far-left groups such as the Rosenberg Foundation and the Akonadi Foundation.
Fox News Digital's Kerry J. Byrne contributed to this update.
Vice President Harris will not reveal when she first found out President Biden was ending his re-election bid.
Fox News Digital made several attempts to reach Harris' office to ask when the vice president was first notified that Biden would no longer seek re-election but did not receive a response to the question.
Biden made a sudden withdrawal from the presidential race via a written statement on Sunday, despite his communication team spending the days leading up to the withdrawal being adamant that the president was staying in the race.
Harris was immediately propped up by Democrats as the candidate to replace Biden at the top of the 2024 ticket, but it is unknown exactly when she found out that he would not be running after weeks of concern over his fitness to serve.
After Biden dropped out, it was reported that only a handful of White House and campaign officials were notified of the president's plan to forego his re-election, prompting questions about the administration's communication over the situation.
Biden endorsed Harris shortly after the withdrawal announcement. The vice president did not waste any time before accepting Biden's endorsement and stepping into his place on the ticket, visiting the revamped campaign headquarters just 24 hours after the president dropped out.
Fox News Digital's Aubrie Spady contributed to this update.
The first lady and members of President Biden's family were with him in the White House as he delivered his Oval Office address on Wednesday evening.
Most of the Biden family sat off to the side as the president spoke from the resolute desk. Those in attendance included Hunter Biden, his daughter Finnegan Biden, Ashley Biden and her husband, Howard Krein, first lady Jill Biden, Naomi Biden Neal and her husband, Peter Neal and several of the president's grandchildren.
There were about 40 people in the Oval Office for Biden's address, including the president, his family and staff.
Family members were seen tearing up and hugging the president after he wrapped up his speech. They applauded him after his remarks concluded.
Once the cameras were off, Biden went to the dining room for a private moment with his family. He returned a few minutes later to address hundreds of staff awaiting him in the Rose Garden, who surprised him with loud and lengthy cheering.
In a roughly 11 minute Oval Office address , President Biden told the American people his plans for the remainder of his first and only term in the White House.
The president said he looks forward to the work before him in his final six months in office, including pushing for Supreme Court reforms.
"Over the next six months, I will be focused on doing my job as president. That means I will continue to lower costs for hard-working families, grow our economy. I will keep defending our personal freedoms and civil rights, from the right to vote to the right to choose. I will keep calling out hate and extremism, making it clear there is no place, no place in America for political violence or any violence ever, period. I’m going to keep speaking out to protect our kids from gun violence, our planet from climate crisis as an existential threat," Biden said.
"I will keep fighting for my Cancer Moonshot, so we can end cancer as we know it because we can do it. I’m going to call for Supreme Court reform because this is critical to our democracy — Supreme Court reform. You know, I will keep working to ensure American remains strong, secure and the leader of the free world."
Biden also said he will continue to support Ukraine in the eastern European nation's war against Russia, continue to seek a peaceful resolution to the war in Gaza and bring home the Americans still held captive around the world.
Fox News Digital's Emma Colton contributed to this update.