{"id":1436037,"date":"2022-04-13T17:29:54","date_gmt":"2022-04-13T21:29:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1436037"},"modified":"2022-04-13T17:29:58","modified_gmt":"2022-04-13T21:29:58","slug":"psaki-suggests-white-house-still-views-inflation-as-transitory-defends-blaming-abbott-for-supply-chain-issues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/psaki-suggests-white-house-still-views-inflation-as-transitory-defends-blaming-abbott-for-supply-chain-issues\/","title":{"rendered":"Psaki Suggests White House Still Views Inflation As \u2018Transitory,\u2019 Defends Blaming Abbott For Supply Chain Issues"},"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\">32<\/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%2Fpsaki-suggests-white-house-still-views-inflation-as-transitory-defends-blaming-abbott-for-supply-chain-issues%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=1436037&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--><div><\/div>\n<p>White House press secretary Jen Psaki appeared to say Wednesday that the administration still views inflation as \u201ctransitory.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Inflation hit a four-decade high Tuesday, with the Department of Labor (DOL) <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/04\/12\/inflation-labor-department-joe-biden-white-house-vladimir-putin\/\">announcing<\/a>\u00a0that March consumer prices soared 8.5%. Amid the soaring prices \u2013 which have steadily risen throughout President Joe Biden\u2019s time in office \u2013 Psaki was pressed on the administration\u2019s past push to claim inflation as temporary.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDoes the White House still view inflation as transitory?\u201d Fox News White House correspondent Jacqui Heinrich asked.<\/p>\n<p>Psaki pointed to the Federal Reserve and \u201coutside economists,\u201d noting that they all continue to believe the term remains accurate.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat is the view of the Federal Reserve and outside economists, and they all continue to project it will come down this year,\u201d the press secretary said, suggesting the White House is following this belief.<\/p>\n<p><strong>WATCH:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Throughout parts of 2021, administration officials repeatedly claimed that inflation would be temporary. Psaki and Biden, among others, downplayed Americans\u2019 concerns, with the president at one point saying the increase was \u201cexpected.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Towards the end of 2021, administration officials began to abandon the terms \u201ctemporary\u201d and \u201ctransitory.\u201d In December 2021, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen even\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/12\/02\/business\/yellen-inflation-omicron.html\">admitted<\/a> that it was time \u201cto retire the word transitory.\u201d <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/04\/12\/flashback-joe-biden-administration-inflation-temporary\/\">(RELATED:\u00a0FLASHBACK: Biden Administration Downplayed Inflation Concerns As Temporary)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The White House\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/03\/10\/putin-gas-price-hike-psaki-pins-russia-oil-companies-gas-prices\/\">latest<\/a> messaging on inflation has been to blame Russian President Vladimir Putin, with officials coining the term \u201cPutin\u2019s Price Hike\u201d when discussing things like higher gas prices seen around the country.<\/p>\n<p>Psaki was also pressed Wednesday about whether the administration was blaming inflation on Republican Texas Gov. Greg Abbott. Psaki issued a statement Wednesday morning slamming Abbott\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/04\/13\/truckers-supply-chain-southern-border-greg-abbott\/\">border security measures<\/a> ahead of the end of Title 42, which <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/09\/30\/psaki-biden-administration-progress-covid-not-donald-trump\/\">allowed<\/a> for the quick expulsion of migrants due to the COVID-19 pandemic, ending in <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/04\/01\/cdc-title-42-end-may-23-border-crisis\/\">May<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Specifically, Psaki\u2019s statement hit on Abbott\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/gov.texas.gov\/news\/post\/governor-abbott-takes-aggressive-action-to-secure-the-border-as-president-biden-ends-title-42-expulsions\">action<\/a> requiring the Texas Department of Safety (DPS) to conduct \u201cenhanced safety inspections\u201d on vehicles crossing from Mexico. The press secretary called it the inspections \u201cunnecessary and redundant\u201d and accused the measure of impacting inflation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGovernor <span class=\"il\">Abbott<\/span>\u2019s unnecessary and redundant inspections of trucks transiting ports of entry between Texas and Mexico are causing significant disruptions to the food and automobile supply chains, delaying manufacturing, impacting jobs, and raising prices for families in Texas and across the country,\u201d Psaki said in her morning statement.<\/p>\n<p>During the afternoon press briefing, Psaki was pressed on whether her statement indicated the administration was now also blaming Abbott for inflation. Psaki defended her statement and said the White House is \u201ctrying to state the facts.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWell, I think we\u2019re trying to state the facts of what his \u2013 another political stunt \u2013 that we\u2019re seeing happen and the impact of it, and what we\u2019re seeing is right now, factually, there\u2019s over one million dollars in trade crossing over the U.S.\u2013Mexico border every minute,\u201d the press secretary said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese actions are impacting people\u2019s jobs and the livelihoods of hardworking families in Texas and across the country. That\u2019s not a political statement, that\u2019s a statement of fact. I\u2019d also note that what we\u2019re seeing with these unnecessary inspections of trucks \u2026 are significant delays which are resulting in a drop in commercial traffic of up to sixty to seventy percent in some ports, and that is significantly impacting the local and regional supply chains,\u201d Psaki continued.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>White House press secretary Jen Psaki appeared to say Wednesday that the administration still views inflation as \u201ctransitory.\u201dInflation hit a four-decade high Tuesday, with the Department of Labor (DOL) announcing\u00a0that<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":125,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1436037","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\/1436037","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\/125"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1436037"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1436037\/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=1436037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1436037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1436037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}