{"id":1470552,"date":"2022-05-10T16:14:59","date_gmt":"2022-05-10T20:14:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1470552"},"modified":"2022-05-10T16:15:03","modified_gmt":"2022-05-10T20:15:03","slug":"biden-says-his-policies-help-not-hurt-inflation-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-says-his-policies-help-not-hurt-inflation-problem\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden Says His Policies \u2018Help, Not Hurt\u2019 Inflation Problem"},"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\">18<\/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%2Fbiden-says-his-policies-help-not-hurt-inflation-problem%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=1470552&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>President Joe Biden argued Tuesday that the policies laid out under his administration \u201chelp, not hurt\u201d the fight against inflation.<\/p>\n<p>The president discussed his plan to fight <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/04\/12\/inflation-labor-department-joe-biden-white-house-vladimir-putin\/\">inflation<\/a>, which <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/03\/10\/bureau-labor-statistics-inflation-consumer-price-index\/\">reached<\/a> a four-decade high in March, at the White House. Biden promised Tuesday that fighting inflation is his \u201ctop domestic priority\u201d and noted he\u2019s taking the issue \u201cvery seriously.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think our policies help, not hurt,\u201d Biden said when\u00a0pressed by reporters on whether his administration takes some responsibility for soaring inflation prices. \u201cThink about what they say. The vast majority of the economists think that this is gonna be a real tough problem to solve, but it\u2019s not because of spending.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>WATCH:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The president also argued that Democrats \u201cdon\u2019t really\u201d control \u201call three branches of the government\u201d because the Senate is split.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou need 60 votes to get major things done. I\u2019ve been pushing the things I\u2019ve been proposing here \u2026 since I\u2019ve got in office, and I need to get 60 votes to be able to even pass them,\u201d Biden said, suggesting his plans have been foiled by that 50-50 split.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/05\/10\/gasoline-prices-record-high-joe-biden-strategic-petroleum-reserve\/\">president<\/a> continued on to suggest <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/03\/31\/biden-promises-lower-gas-prices-35-cents\/\">Americans<\/a> who believe his administration isn\u2019t doing enough to combat inflation aren\u2019t \u201cfocused.\u201d <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/05\/09\/joe-biden-fueling-american-jobs-coalition-gasoline-prices-renewable-fuels\/\">(RELATED: New Ad Claims Biden Can Cut Gas Prices By 30 Cents Per Gallon \u2018With The Stroke Of A Pen\u2019)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll they\u2019re focused on, understandably, is the problem they\u2019re facing,\u201d Biden said. \u201cAnd they know that a lot of it\u2019s extremely complicated, and so they\u2019re frustrated \u2013 and I don\u2019t blame them. I really don\u2019t blame them. There\u2019s a lot we have to do.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Biden noted that he has to \u201cexplain in simple, straightforward language what\u2019s going on\u201d to those Americans critical of his administration\u2019s handling of inflation.<\/p>\n<p>During Tuesday\u2019s speech, the president pointed to both the COVID-19 pandemic and Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine as reason for inflation \u2013 situations the administration has often blamed.<\/p>\n<p>He spent a chunk of his remarks comparing the \u201ctwo potential paths forward\u201d in fighting inflation, propping up the Democratic plan and contrasting it with \u201cthe plan put forward by congressional Republicans.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Joe Biden argued Tuesday that the policies laid out under his administration \u201chelp, not hurt\u201d the fight against inflation.The president discussed his plan to fight inflation, which reached a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":125,"featured_media":1482405,"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-1470552","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\/1470552","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=1470552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1470552\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1482405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1470552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1470552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1470552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}