Fox News Reporter Peter Doocy Provides 'Receipts' After Karine Jean-Pierre Called His Question 'Misinformation'
After a Monday exchange with White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre, Fox News reporter Peter Doocy responded to Jean-Pierre’s accusation that he was spreading misinformation.
Doocy addressed the situation on X, sharing his response with a caption stating he “brought receipts to push back against the White House’s ‘misinformation’ claims directed at him.”
“Peter Doocy here outside the West Wing of the White House where, this week, one of my questions about foreign aid versus hurricane relief was labeled misinformation,” he explained, while showing a clip from his Monday confrontation with Jean-Pierre.
.@pdoocy brought receipts to hit back against the White House’s “misinformation” claims against him. pic.twitter.com/hM4Q5SldHj
— Fox News (@FoxNews) October 9, 2024
“President Biden often says, show me your budget, and I will show you what you value. If there’s money for people in Lebanon right now without needing Congress to reconvene, what does it say about his values that there isn’t enough funding for people in North Carolina,” Doocy asked on Monday, as seen in the clip.
“That’s no, that is your whole, your whole premise of the question is misinformation, sir,” Jean-Pierre responded, according to the video.
The people of Lebanon are facing an increasingly dire humanitarian situation. I am concerned about the security and well-being of civilians suffering in Lebanon and will continue working to help meet the needs of all civilians there.
— Vice President Kamala Harris (@VP) October 5, 2024
To that end, the United States will provide…
After the clip of Monday’s exchange, Doocy followed up by saying, “I’ve got the facts right here. The vice president is posting on social media about $157 million in additional aid to the people of Lebanon.”
And, while FEMA’s Disaster Relief Fund has the resources it requires to meet immediate needs, the fund faces a shortfall at the end of the year.
— President Biden (@POTUS) October 5, 2024
Without additional funding, FEMA would be required to forego longer-term recovery activities in favor of meeting urgent needs.
He continued, “Meanwhile, President Biden is posting about how the Small Business Administration’s disaster loan program is running out of money unless Congress returns.”
“To many watching these briefings, a taxpayer dollar is a taxpayer dollar is a taxpayer dollar. That is not misinformation. That is a fact,” Doocy said.
The allocation of funds to Lebanon while the Southeast suffers was criticized on X by Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia.
“She has sent them $385 million this year, $157 million this week. Kamala gave Hurricane Helene victims $750 bucks. Americans can fire her soon,” Greene wrote.
Former President Donald Trump also chimed in, promising that relief would come if he were elected again.
“Western North Carolina, and the whole state, for that matter, has been totally and incompetently mismanaged by Harris/Biden. They can’t get anything done properly, but I will make up for lost time, and do it right, when I get there. Hold on, and vote these horrible ‘public servants’ out of office. They are incapable of doing the job, and Kamala is even, WORSE THAN BIDEN. MAGA2024!” Trump posted on Truth Social.