{"id":1211118,"date":"2022-01-12T13:04:50","date_gmt":"2022-01-12T18:04:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1211118"},"modified":"2022-01-12T13:05:00","modified_gmt":"2022-01-12T18:05:00","slug":"texas-rep-kevin-brady-on-inflation-biden-democrats-pass-the-buck-for-incompetence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/texas-rep-kevin-brady-on-inflation-biden-democrats-pass-the-buck-for-incompetence\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Rep. Kevin Brady on Inflation: &#039;Biden, Democrats Pass the Buck for Incompetence&#039;"},"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\">26<\/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%2Ftexas-rep-kevin-brady-on-inflation-biden-democrats-pass-the-buck-for-incompetence%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=1211118&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\">The Republican leader for the House Committee on Ways and Means slammed President Joe Biden and Democrats on Wednesday after news broke that inflation surged 7 percent year over year in December \u2014 the fastest rate since 1982.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis crushing report shows Democrats\u2019 spending has pushed Bidenflation to achieve the highest prices in 40 years, killing family budgets and wiping out three years of wage gains,\u201d Rep. Kevin Brady (R-TX) <a href=\"https:\/\/gop-waysandmeans.house.gov\/brady-biden-democrats-ignored-inflation-denied-it-and-now-pass-the-buck-for-incompetence\/\">said<\/a> in a statement.<\/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>The Committee on Ways and Means is \u201cthe oldest committee of the United States Congress,\u201d and is the chief tax-writing committee in the House of Representatives. The committee, under Brady\u2019s leadership, has been very vocal in its criticism the Biden administration\u2019s handling of the economy and its Build Back Better agenda.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs Chairman Powell said yesterday, inflation is a severe threat to getting workers off the sidelines and back into the workforce\u2014yet the&nbsp;Biden Administration has ignored it, denied it, and is now passing the buck for their&nbsp;own incompetence,\u201d Brady continued.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">U.S. inflation hit a 40 year high in November, worrying news for the Federal Reserve and the Biden White House. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/2g9tKCA6VF\">https:\/\/t.co\/2g9tKCA6VF<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart News (@BreitbartNews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartNews\/status\/1469309236781981697?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 10, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>The Labor Department on Wednesday&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bls.gov\/news.release\/realer.nr0.htm\">released<\/a> updated numbers for the Consumer Price Index (CPI), which tracks what consumers pay for goods and services. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/economy\/2022\/01\/12\/consumer-prices-rise\/\">data also shows<\/a>&nbsp;that December was the seventh straight month of inflation above 5 percent. In November, CPI was up 6.9 percent.<\/p>\n<p>Recent polls reveal voters\u2019 attitudes toward the Biden administration as inflation persists. In a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/11\/24\/poll-majority-directly-blame-biden-for-inflation-negatively-affecting-them\/\">Yahoo News\/YouGov survey<\/a>, 57 percent of voters said they \u201cdirectly blame President Biden,\u201d and view inflation as the \u201cmost important issue facing America.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Another <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/12\/16\/poll-voters-believe-joe-biden-responsible-for-making-inflation-worse\/\">poll<\/a> in mid-December found that voters believe Biden is making inflation worse, not better. By a 25-point margin, voters also said they think his Build Back Better spending plan would push inflation higher.<\/p>\n<p>Several other Republican lawmakers took to Twitter following to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/economy\/2022\/01\/12\/building-back-broke-biden-hammered-40-year-high-inflation-report\/\">weigh-in<\/a> on the&nbsp;40-year-high inflation report.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cInflation is up 7%, and @POTUS is talking about a federal takeover of elections, and breaking a filibuster he defended for decades. This guy needs to get serious!,\u201d Rep. Byron Donalds (R-FL) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ByronDonalds\/status\/1481266505841094659\">tweeted<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_19461066\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2022\/01\/GettyImages-1360267757.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-19461066\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/GettyImages-1360267757-1024x719-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"990\" height=\"695\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Shoppers visit the Dolphin Mall on December 21, 2021 in Miami, Florida. Shoppers are seeing higher prices on many goods as the annual inflation rate in the U.S. accelerated to 6.8% in November of 2021, the highest since June of 1982. (Joe Raedle\/Getty Images)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\">\u201cInflation just hit 7%, the highest rate since 1982. But don\u2019t worry, Biden\u2019s hard at work calling Americans racist for wanting voter ID. <\/span><span class=\"r-18u37iz\">#BringBackMeanTweets,\u201d Rep. Andy Biggs&nbsp; (R-AZ) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RepAndyBiggsAZ\/status\/1481267999705341953\">joined in<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"r-18u37iz\">Brady further wrote that \u201cno one is buying Democrats\u2019 excuses.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe American people are suffering as they watch this Administration refuse to lift a finger to help them out of this crisis,\u201d he concluded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Republican leader for the House Committee on Ways and Means slammed President Joe Biden and Democrats on Wednesday after news broke that inflation surged 7 percent year over year &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"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-1211118","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\/1211118","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\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1211118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1211118\/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=1211118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1211118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1211118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}