{"id":58034,"date":"2025-01-17T16:05:19","date_gmt":"2025-01-17T21:05:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=58034"},"modified":"2025-01-17T16:05:19","modified_gmt":"2025-01-17T21:05:19","slug":"changing-things-on-his-way-out-the-door","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=58034","title":{"rendered":"Changing Things On His Way Out The Door"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Tuesday, The Hill<\/a> posted an article about a recent decision by the Biden administration regarding Cuba.<\/p>\n

The article reports:<\/p>\n

The Biden administration announced on Tuesday that it will remove Cuba from the list of State Sponsors of Terrorism (SST) in exchange for the release of political prisoners jailed for protesting against the regime in July 2021.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Trump administration placed the SST designation on Cuba in the last week of the president-elect\u2019s first term, and Biden officials said they are in contact with the Trump transition team over their action.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cThis issue is among the issues on which they\u2019ve been in communication,\u201d a senior administration official said in a call with reporters.\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

The administration, required by law, is notifying Congress of the decision, allowing lawmakers to review it, although there\u2019s little they can do to block the lifting of the designation.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Cuban officials had fought tooth and nail<\/a> for removal from the SST list throughout President Biden\u2019s <\/a><\/span>term, but had generally not received much buy-in from administration officials.<\/strong><\/p>\n

On Tuesday, the\u00a0Cuban Ministry of Foreign Affairs released a statement<\/a>\u00a0lauding the changes, but noting that the economic \u201cblockade\u201d of the island \u2014 referred to as an \u201cembargo\u201d stateside \u2014 \u201cremains in force.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

It is nice that the political prisoners are getting released, but is Cuba going to take more political prisoners in order to have the economic blockade lifted? Why is the Biden administration (I truly doubt President Biden totally understands a lot of what the administration is doing at this point) doing this on their way out the door? Is there any way we can stop damaging decisions by a lame-duck President, because we are seeing a lot of them?<\/p>\n

The article concludes:<\/p>\n

Sen. Marco Rubio <\/a><\/span>(R-Fla.), Trump\u2019s pick for secretary of State, introduced legislation<\/a>\u00a0in February 2023 that\u00a0would prevent Cuba\u2019s removal from the SST<\/a>\u00a0list until democratic elections are held in the country, a transition government is in power and all political prisoners are released.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Rubio will sit for a confirmation hearing with the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Wednesday where he is likely to face questions from his colleagues over whether the Trump administration will maintain Biden\u2019s actions or reverse them.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) said in a Tuesday statement that he would work to reverse Biden\u2019s decision.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cToday\u2019s decision is unacceptable on its merits. The terrorism advanced by the Cuban regime has not ceased. I will work with President Trump and my colleagues to immediately reverse and limit the damage from the decision,\u201d Cruz said.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On Tuesday, The Hill posted an article about a recent decision by the Biden administration regarding Cuba. The article reports: The Biden administration announced on Tuesday that it will remove Cuba from the list of State Sponsors of Terrorism (SST) … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[13417,305,214,8482,13030,9533],"class_list":["post-58034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-biden-administration","tag-cuba","tag-marco-rubio","tag-senator-ted-cruz","tag-state-sponsors-of-terrorism","tag-the-hill"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58034","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58034"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58034\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58035,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58034\/revisions\/58035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}