Jill Biden spoke up about President Joe Bidens hindered progress.

“[The President] had so many hopes and plans for things he wanted to do, but every time you turned around, he had to address the problems of the moment,” said Jill Biden.

On the domestic front, Biden noted gun violence, the Supreme Court’s momentous decision on Roe v. Wade and the war in Ukraine as problems the President did not anticipate.

“He’s just had so many things thrown his way,” she said. “Who would have ever thought about what happened [with the Supreme Court overturning] Roe v Wade? Well, maybe we saw it coming, but still we didn’t believe it. The gun violence in this country is absolutely appalling. We didn’t see the war in Ukraine coming.”

Biden also slammed Congress during her remarks, blaming the administration’s stalled agenda on Republicans. Joe Biden’s sweeping Build Back Better plan – which would have expanded the nation’s social safety net – was served its latest blow this week when West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin, a moderate Democrat, dismissed including any climate or tax provisions in the bill. In a narrowly divided Senate, Democrats needed Manchin’s support to pass the legislation along party lines in a process called budget reconciliation, which requires all 50 members of the Democratic caucus to agree to advance legislation.

The first lady shared her frustration about the overturning last month of Roe v. Wade, which ended the federal constitutional right to an abortion. Biden added that while she supported the right to protest, being angry about the decision, in her opinion, is not enough – contradicting the President’s remarks last week, where he encouraged women to “keep protesting,” adding protesting is “critically important.”

Biden said she told her own family members they should think about doing more than protesting.

“So many young girls, my own grandchildren included, went up to the Supreme Court and marched. I say, ‘Okay, good for you. But what are you going to do next? You feel good about yourself because you voiced your opinion but what are you going to do next? What is your plan?’”

“I know there are so many nay-sayers who say we’ll get slammed in the midterms. Okay. The Republicans are working hard, they stick together, for good or evil. So, we just have to work harder,” she said.