{"id":1605638,"date":"2022-08-14T12:55:07","date_gmt":"2022-08-14T16:55:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1605638"},"modified":"2022-08-14T12:55:14","modified_gmt":"2022-08-14T16:55:14","slug":"isnt-it-almost-orwellian-karine-jean-pierre-fumbles-trying-to-explain-misleading-inflation-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/isnt-it-almost-orwellian-karine-jean-pierre-fumbles-trying-to-explain-misleading-inflation-bill\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Isn\u2019t It Almost Orwellian?\u2019 Karine Jean-Pierre Fumbles Trying To Explain Misleading Inflation Bill"},"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%2Fisnt-it-almost-orwellian-karine-jean-pierre-fumbles-trying-to-explain-misleading-inflation-bill%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=1605638&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><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Screenshot-2022-08-14-110810-e1660490096581.png\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre fumbled Sunday when asked about the \u201cOrwellian\u201d nature of the Inflation Reduction Act by \u201cThis Week\u201d host Jon Karl.<\/p>\n<p>An ABC News\/Ipsos <a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/sour-views-economy-biden-approval-issues-poll\/story?id=88038637\">poll<\/a> from early August found only 37% of Americans approve of President Joe Biden\u2019s handling of the economy, Karl <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ThisWeekABC\/status\/1558827324577030147\">explained<\/a> to Jean-Pierre, and asked her why, if things are getting better with inflation, so many Americans disapprove of the president. Jean-Pierre argued that the White House is aware of what the American people are feeling. She then gave examples of how the president has \u201cpartly\u201d helped in attempting to improve inflation issues, noting the introduction of the Inflation Reduction Act.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLet me ask you. It\u2019s called the \u2018Inflation Reduction Act,\u2019 but the Congressional Budget Office [CBO], which is nonpartisan, said there would be a negligible impact on inflation this year and barely impact inflation at all next year,\u201d Karl responded, \u201cIsn\u2019t it almost Orwellian? How can you call it the \u2018Inflation Reduction Act\u2019 when nonpartisan experts say its not gonna \u2014\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">On Inflation Reduction Act, Jean-Pierre tells <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jonkarl?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@JonKarl<\/a>: \u201cIt\u2019s going to lower costs for Americans. Prescription drugs, energy costs\u202613 million Americans on the ACA who are now going to continue to see their premiums go down. That is important.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/s4vGyjQKTX\">https:\/\/t.co\/s4vGyjQKTX<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/zuJREOUiXe\">pic.twitter.com\/zuJREOUiXe<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 This Week (@ThisWeekABC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ThisWeekABC\/status\/1558827324577030147?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 14, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Jean-Pierre cut Karl off before he could finish the question, saying that, \u201cI appreciate the question. We\u2019ve actually addressed this.. this \u2026 in the CBO \u2026 it was the top line number that shows, uh, that it will have the money from \u2014 remember how we\u2019re doing this too, it\u2019s making sure that billionaires in corporate America are paying their fare share.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"rev-more-content\">\n<p>\u201cMaking sure that the tax code, is a little bit more fairer,\u201d she continued, \u201cso when you do that, when you put it in its totality, you will she \u2014 see \u2014 that it will, it will bring down, lower, the deficit, which will help fight inflation.\u201d <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/05\/18\/new-wh-press-secretary-appears-in-photo-wearing-knock-off-ivanka-trump-dress\/\">(RELATED: New WH Press Secretary Appears In Photo Wearing (Knock Off?) Ivanka Trump Dress)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Karl asked if that meant Jean-Pierre disagreed with the statements made by the CBO, but she continued talking over him so his question was lost in the segment. <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/07\/29\/inflation-reduction-schumer-manchin-wharton\/\">Analysis<\/a> by other bodies, such as the University of Pennsylvania Penn Wharton Budget Model, have also\u00a0 found that the act will have no measurable effect on inflation.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre fumbled Sunday when asked about the \u201cOrwellian\u201d nature of the Inflation Reduction Act by \u201cThis Week\u201d host Jon Karl.An ABC News\/Ipsos poll from early<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":526,"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-1605638","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\/1605638","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\/526"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1605638"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1605638\/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=1605638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1605638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1605638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}