{"id":1198091,"date":"2022-01-07T19:06:01","date_gmt":"2022-01-08T00:06:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1198091"},"modified":"2022-01-07T19:06:05","modified_gmt":"2022-01-08T00:06:05","slug":"malarkey-joe-biden-snaps-at-claim-he-is-not-focused-on-inflation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/malarkey-joe-biden-snaps-at-claim-he-is-not-focused-on-inflation\/","title":{"rendered":"&#039;Malarkey&#039;: Joe Biden Snaps at Claim He Is Not Focused on Inflation"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmalarkey-joe-biden-snaps-at-claim-he-is-not-focused-on-inflation%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1198091&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\">President Joe Biden reacted sharply to Republican claims on Friday he was failing the American people by not addressing inflation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNow I hear Republicans today say that my talking about this strong record says I don\u2019t understand a lot of people are still suffering. Well, they are. Or that I\u2019m not focused on inflation,\u201d he said. \u201cMalarkey.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>Biden delivered a speech on the economy at the White House after a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/economy\/2022\/01\/07\/another-disaster-u-s-economy-added-just-199000-jobs-in-december\/\">disappointing<\/a> number of jobs were created in the month of December.<\/p>\n<p>He accused Republicans of focusing on inflation because they refused to vote for his multitrillion-dollar spending bills that fanned the flames of inflation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey want to talk down the recovery because they voted against the legislation that made it happen,\u201d he grumbled.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>Wage gains <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/economy\/2022\/01\/07\/bidenflation-worker-incomes-fall-further-behind-inflation\/\">weakened<\/a> in December despite Biden\u2019s repeated claim that higher wages help reduce the cost of inflation on American families.<\/p>\n<p>Biden focused on the 3.9 percent unemployment rate in December, claiming \u201chistoric\u201d progress.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cToday America is the only leading economy in the world where the economy as a whole is stronger than before the pandemic,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The president also claimed that he helped save Christmas by working to address port congestion and supply chain disruptions.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_18293178\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-18293178\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Freight-1.jpeg\" alt=\"Cargo ships filled with containers dock at the Port of Los Angeles on September 28, 2021, in Los Angeles, California. (Frederic J. Brown\/AFP via Getty Images)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cargo ships filled with containers dock at the Port of Los Angeles on September 28, 2021, in Los Angeles, California. (Frederic J. Brown\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cThe Grinch did not steal Christmas,\u201d he said emphatically. \u201cNor any votes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He also addressed criticism that four million Americans <a href=\"https:\/\/journalrecord.com\/2022\/01\/04\/record-4-5-million-americans-quit-jobs-in-november\/\">quit<\/a> their jobs in November.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAmericans are moving up to better jobs with better pay and better benefits,\u201d he claimed, pointing to more job opportunities in the American economy.<\/p>\n<p>Biden argued that more spending was needed to continue the economic recovery, demanding that the Senate move forward on his Build Back Better legislation that has stalled.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe can do all this. We can do it without increasing inflation and without increasing the deficit,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Joe Biden reacted sharply to Republican claims on Friday he was failing the American people by not addressing inflation. \u201cNow I hear Republicans today say that my talking about &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1198091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1198091","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1198091"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1198091\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1198091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1198091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1198091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}