Republicans Fire Back at Biden’s ‘Alcohol Tsar’ Who Floated ‘Two Beers a Week’ Limit

‘I’ve got to tell you, if they want us to drink two beers a week, frankly, they can kiss my a—,’ Senator Cruz says.

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Senator Cruz at Washington, D.C. Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images

Comments made by the executive branch’s chief medical advisor for alcohol and alcohol abuse are causing an uproar in the conservative world, with politicians and media figures alike denouncing what they see as another example of bureaucrats attempting to “control” Americans’ lifestyle choices. 

The director of the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, George Koob, was asked by the Daily Mail on August 31 if America might follow Canada’s new guidelines surrounding alcohol consumption, which recommend that people drink only two beers a week. “If there’s health benefits, I think people will start to re-evaluate where we’re at,” Mr. Koob told the outlet. 

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