{"id":1602895,"date":"2022-08-12T09:34:58","date_gmt":"2022-08-12T13:34:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1602895"},"modified":"2022-08-12T09:35:00","modified_gmt":"2022-08-12T13:35:00","slug":"biden-white-house-touts-economic-record-during-quiet-august-recess","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-white-house-touts-economic-record-during-quiet-august-recess\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden White House Touts Economic Record During Quiet August Recess"},"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\">20<\/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-white-house-touts-economic-record-during-quiet-august-recess%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=1602895&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>A White House memo stated that the U.S. administration would take advantage of the quiet August recess to tout President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-joe-biden\">Joe Biden<\/a>\u2019s latest string of successes.<\/p>\n<p>Many Democrats and left-leaning pundits have stated this had been the best week of the president\u2019s term.<\/p>\n<p>In recent days, the Biden team started taking advantage of the data as officials have been busy highlighting the broad array of economic and legislative gains that \u201cbeat the special interests and delivered what was best for the American people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are continuing to see encouraging economic developments, including strong job growth and lower energy prices,\u201d said Cecilia Rouse, the chair of the Council of Economic Advisors (CEA), in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>But are the claims being made by the president and his administration accurate?<\/p>\n<p> Zero Percent Inflation? <\/p>\n<p>Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris celebrated the July annual consumer price index (CPI) that\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bls.gov\/news.release\/cpi.nr0.htm\">eased to 8.5 percent<\/a>, down from 9.1 percent in June. They claimed that there was \u201czero <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-inflation\">inflation<\/a>\u201d last month.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBefore I begin today, I want to say a word about news that came out today relative to the economy. Actually, I just want to say a number: Zero,\u201d he said during a White House address on Wednesday. \u201cToday we received news that our economy had zero percent inflation in the month of July.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The vice president echoed the same sentiment.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe data shows our economy had 0% inflation in July. We have more work to do, but @POTUS and I are clear: we\u2019re building an economy that works for all Americans,\u201d Harris posted in a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/VP\/status\/1557518731684741126\">tweet<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre was also ebullient over the inflation numbers, purporting that the U.S. economy had 0 percent in July.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile the price of some things went up, the price of others, like gas, clothing, and more, dropped,\u201d she posted on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PressSec\/status\/1557374758433525761\">Twitter<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A White House memo stated that the U.S. administration would take advantage of the quiet August recess to tout President Joe Biden\u2019s latest string of successes. Many Democrats and left-leaning pundits have stated this had been the best week of the president\u2019s term. In recent days, the Biden team started taking advantage of the data [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":278,"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-1602895","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\/1602895","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\/278"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1602895"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1602895\/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=1602895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1602895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1602895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}