Although a quarter of a year into the Biden Administration has passed, the White House appears confused about whom it works for.

The correct answer should be, of course, the American people. But the nation’s citizenry appears to be little more than an afterthought. The Biden White House has assisted global interests, at the expense of Americans.

Russia’s energy-dependent economy is helped by limiting U.S. energy production. Europeans, particularly Germans, are glad that the Trump-era demands to pay a fair share of their own defense is off. China is heavily relieved that the prior administration’s public pressure on it to deal fairly has been lessened. Latin American nations are grateful that tough border policies have been abolished, and drug cartels are thrilled at the increase in their nefarious business. Iran is gleeful that an opening has been made to reduce or eliminate sanctions.

How have these policies affected the constituency that the current president was elected to represent?

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Almost immediately, American workers lost well-paying jobs due to the shutdown of the Keystone Pipeline and the limitation on fracking. U.S. consumers have, as a result, seen their energy costs skyrocket. American energy independence is being reversed. The problem results in both soaring prices for Americans, and greater reliance on Russia for fuel by Europeans.

A Pew study released in March noted, “The Biden administration is expected to review policies that led to increased denial rates of H-1B visa applications under the Trump administration. In addition, Biden has delayed implementing a rule put in place by Trump that sought to prioritize the H-1B visa selection process based on wages, which would have raised the wages of H-1B recipients overall. Biden also proposed legislation to provide permanent work permits to spouses of H-1B visa holders. By contrast, the Trump administration had sought to restrict these permits.”

Biden’s policies have led to hiked immigration levels, legal and illegal, to the United States. That may be beneficial to those abroad seeking a better life, but the impact on Americans is costly.

In February, President Biden announced that he was issuing an executive order to expand the number of refugees allowed to enter the U.S., essentially quadrupling the number allowed under his predecessor. Some of that is due to Biden’s redefining what a “refugee” actually is.

Biden’s border policies have encouraged a significant surge in illegal immigration, ignoring both the cost to U.S. taxpayers and the increased threat from contagious diseases.

The Federation for American Immigration Reform estimates that the annual costs of illegal immigration at the federal, state, and local level is about $113 billion. Tax collections from illegal alien workers, both those in the above-ground economy and those in the underground economy do not match expenditures and, in any case, “are misleading as an offset because over time unemployed and underemployed U.S. workers would replace illegal alien workers.”

Should U.S. citizens, already hard hit financially, be forced to bear additional costs? Writing in The Hill Kristan Tate noted that “[…] there is a significant tax burden imposed on citizens and legal immigrants tied to a leaky border[.]” She notes that noncitizen families are twice as likely to be on welfare than native born families, and that half of noncitizens receive Medicaid, compared to 23 percent of native born citizens. Half of noncitizens are on food stamps. Interestingly, Tate notes, noncitizens who stay in the long-term are more likely to use assistance programs than those who just arrived. Half of new noncitizens receive welfare, but the figure jumps to a stunning 70 percent among those who have been in the United States for more than 10 years.

Frank Vernuccio serves as editor-in-chief of the New York Analysis of Policy and Government.