{"id":1607404,"date":"2022-08-15T18:02:22","date_gmt":"2022-08-15T22:02:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1607404"},"modified":"2022-08-15T18:02:31","modified_gmt":"2022-08-15T22:02:31","slug":"next-question-democrat-rep-refuses-to-say-how-inflation-reduction-act-will-lower-inflation-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/next-question-democrat-rep-refuses-to-say-how-inflation-reduction-act-will-lower-inflation-video\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Next Question\u2019: Democrat Rep. Refuses To Say How \u2018Inflation Reduction Act\u2019 Will Lower Inflation (VIDEO)"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/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%2Fnext-question-democrat-rep-refuses-to-say-how-inflation-reduction-act-will-lower-inflation-video%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=1607404&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>Congressman <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/jamie-raskin\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jamie Raskin<\/a> (D-MD) was more than happy to talk about the recently-passed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/inflation-reduction-act\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Inflation Reduction Act<\/a> \u2014 until a reporter dared to ask him what specifically the package might do to lower inflation and thus reduce the strain on Americans\u2019 budgets.<\/p>\n<p>Raskin spoke to reporters, touting the passage of the act and saying that the sooner its provisions could be implemented, the sooner Americans would start seeing some relief \u2014 but when a reporter asked him to point to a specific provision that would act to lower inflation, Raskin made it clear that he was no longer interested in continuing the conversation.<\/p>\n<p><strong>WATCH:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&#8220;What parts of the bill do you think will put to work on [lowering inflation] specifically?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Democrat Rep. Jamie Raskin: &#8220;Next question.&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/88O5sWNgJP\">pic.twitter.com\/88O5sWNgJP<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 RNC Research (@RNCResearch) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RNCResearch\/status\/1559210178561642499?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 15, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs soon as the act goes into effect, I hope that all of the provisions will begin to work,\u201d he began. \u201cI\u2019m \u2014 I know that those who have been blaming President Biden for the inflation going up are now giving President Biden all the credit for inflation going down. So we\u2019re moving things in the right direction already.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd what parts of the bill do you think will put \u2014 will work on that specifically?\u201d a reporter challenged Raskin, who stumbled over his words briefly before offering a very definitive answer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNext question,\u201d he said, shaking his head.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/house-passes-inflation-reduction-act-as-gop-plots-bills-demise\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Inflation Reduction Act<\/a> passed both the Senate and the House along party lines late last week \u2014 which has been touted as a <a href=\"https:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/news\/inflation-reduction-act-passes-house-224625452.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">climate, health, and tax bill<\/a> that will massively inflate the size of the <a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/guns-body-armor-spy-gear-heres-what-bidens-beefed-up-irs-investigation-unit-will-pack\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Internal Revenue Service<\/a> \u2014 but very few Biden surrogates have been able to explain how exactly it\u2019s passage and the billions in new spending it represents will work to bring down inflation.<\/p>\n<p>White House Press Secretary <a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/isnt-it-almost-orwellian-abc-anchor-spars-with-wh-press-sec-over-whether-inflation-reduction-act-reduces-inflation\/\">Karine Jean-Pierre<\/a> struggled with a similar question over the weekend while speaking to Jonathan Karl on ABC\u2019s \u201cThis Week.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>After she claimed that the bill would lower costs for Americans, Karl pushed back: \u201cBut let me ask you, it\u2019s called the \u2018Inflation Reduction Act,\u2019 but the Congressional Budget Office, which is nonpartisan, said that there would be a negligible impact on inflation this year and barely impact inflation at all next year, isn\u2019t it almost Orwellian? How can you call it inflation reduction when the nonpartisan experts say it\u2019s not gonna bring inflation down?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLook, here\u2019s the thing. We have 126 economists, both Republicans, both Democrats who have said it\u2019s going to fight inflation, five former secretaries of treasury,\u201d Jean-Pierre claimed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo you disagree with the assessment of the CBO?\u201d Karl pressed again, but Jean-Pierre didn\u2019t budge.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWell, there\u2019s more to it than that,\u201d she said, arguing that Republicans were just framing the issue in such a way that it looked like it wouldn\u2019t work.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Penn Wharton Budget Model, an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/inflation-reduction-act-may-not-lower-inflation-penn-wharton\/\">analysis<\/a> compiled by a group of economists and data analysts at the University of Pennsylvania, the impact of the Inflation Reduction Act will likely be \u201cstatistically indistinguishable from zero.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congressman Jamie Raskin (D-MD) was more than happy to talk about the recently-passed Inflation Reduction Act \u2014 until a reporter dared to ask him what specifically the package might do to lower inflation and thus reduce the strain on Americans\u2019 budgets. Raskin spoke to reporters, touting the passage of the act and saying that the &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1607490,"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-1607404","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\/1607404","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1607404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1607404\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1607490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1607404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1607404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1607404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}