US President Joe Biden has been on vacation for 288 days since his inauguration on January 20, 2021, representing 40 percent of his total stay in the White House, RNC Research, a Twitter handle managed by the Republican National Committee has said.
This year alone, 79-year-old Biden has been on vacation for 93 out of 233 days, according to the handle, which says its aim is to keep “exposing the lies, hypocrisy, and failed far-left policies of Joe Biden and the Democrat Party”.
On Wednesday, the president is expected to round off a two-week vacation at his beach house in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware.
Biden would have spent more time away from the White House than his three immediate predecessors at the same point in their terms, the New York Post reports.
Today is Joe Biden’s 93rd day on vacation for just this year.
Since taking office, Biden has spent 228 days on vacation.
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) August 22, 2022
The president is vacationing more despite low approval ratings and as inflation hits near a four-decade high, forcing Americans to adjust their spending habits and businesses to devise survival strategies.
An ABC News/Ipsos poll released in early August showed that 69 percent of Americans think the US economy is getting worse.
Three months before mid-term Congressional elections, only 37 percent, same as in June, said they approve of how President Joe Biden is handling the economic recovery.
According to Bloomberg, the gloom comes despite significant job growth and a rock-bottom unemployment rate, which has been offset by inflation running at the highest level in decades.
FoxNews reported that some members of the Democratic Party are blaming their leader, President Biden for the economic woes.
Pennsylvania Lt. Gov. and the Democratic candidate running for Senate in the midterms, John Fetterman recently released a political ad titled, “Blame Washington,” in which he blamed the economic woes on politicians who “set the rules, weakened the supply chain and spiked inflation.”
In a campaign ad released in July, Rep. Dan Kildee, D-Mich. said, “I stood up to some in my own party and pushed to cut the gas tax, and to hire more police officers.”