During Monday’s White House press briefing, Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre was challenged by Peter Doocy over the narrative surrounding Bidenomics.
Doocy asked why Americans weren’t seeing the same success that the Biden Admin was seeing.
“So, is it your sense that when people are home for Thanksgiving, catching up with their family members, they were saying to each other, ‘Can you believe how much more affordable things have gotten?’” Doocy asked a frustrated KJP.
Transcript and video clip below:
KJP: So, honestly, I wouldn’t… I hear the question, but I want to make sure this is very clear. We take that very seriously. We take what families — the decisions that they make at their kitchen table, whether it’s at whether it’s during Thanksgiving or whether it is every month, as they’re trying to make hard decisions about how they move forward with taking care of their family — we take that very seriously. It’s not a joke to us, it is important to us. This is a president who talks about it in a very personal way, when he talks about what, what families have to go through, working families, middle-class families. And that’s why he’s taken actions that he has.
And so, look, the fact is the data shows that the economy is improving. The data shows that households remain in a strong financial position. Household wealth is at a record high with lower income households seeing the largest gain since the pandemic. Those are indeed what we’re seeing. But we don’t we don’t take lightly… We actually, we do not take lightly what Americans and families continue to feel. That’s why the president at 2:00 is going to talk about what the actions that he’s taking to continue to lower costs.
DOOCY: But why do you think it is that when you say the economy is improving and President Biden says the economy is improving, that a majority of Americans outside of this building are not buying it?
KJP: So here’s the thing. When we walked into this administration, the economy was on a tailspin. That is the fact. Because of the last administration, because of the Trump administration, because of how they dealt with Covid and the pandemic, because they didn’t have a comprehensive plan.
The president came in. He passed the American Rescue Plan, which was able to get the economy back on its feet, which was able to open up small businesses. Small businesses were able to open up. Schools were able to open up. And we understand what Americans have been feeling over the last two or three years. It’s going to take some time. We get that. It’s going to take some time, but it does not take away how we have seen the economy getting back on its feet. We actually had to fix the problem that we saw, that the last administration left us.
Peter Doocy sends Cringe Jean Pierre into bizarre meltdown blaming Trump after he reality checks Biden’s economic disaster pic.twitter.com/Ibz0GZ3ZLz
— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) November 27, 2023
