{"id":1660351,"date":"2022-09-27T12:03:00","date_gmt":"2022-09-27T16:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1660351"},"modified":"2022-09-27T12:03:06","modified_gmt":"2022-09-27T16:03:06","slug":"rough-shape-bernie-trashes-biden-economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/rough-shape-bernie-trashes-biden-economy\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Rough Shape\u2019: Bernie Trashes Biden Economy"},"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\">12<\/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%2Frough-shape-bernie-trashes-biden-economy%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=1660351&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>Sen. Bernie Sanders (I., Vt.) on Monday criticized the state of the economy under President Joe Biden, saying the middle class is falling behind amid high inflation.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The truth is that the middle class in this country is falling further and further behind,&#8221; Sanders said on <em>Late Night with Seth Meyers<\/em>. &#8220;Wages are not keeping up with inflation. You got over 70 million people who have no health insurance or they&#8217;re underinsured. You&#8217;ve got 600,000 people who are homeless. You got people who can&#8217;t afford prescription drugs. Kids can&#8217;t afford to go to college.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The senator&#8217;s cloudy assessment of the economy comes as inflation <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usinflationcalculator.com\/inflation\/current-inflation-rates\/#:~:text=The%20annual%20inflation%20rate%20for,ET.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">stands<\/a> at 8.3 percent and the stock market is at its lowest point in two years. Polling <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/meet-the-press\/meetthepressblog\/economic-issues-dominate-top-issue-voters-new-poll-shows-rcna36715\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">shows<\/a> the economy is the top issue for American voters heading into the 2022 midterm elections.<\/p>\n<p>Sanders also took aim at Biden&#8217;s Inflation Reduction Act, saying the bill came up &#8220;a lot short&#8221; and is not a sufficient accomplishment for Democrats to run on.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What we have got to be honest about with the American people,&#8221; Sanders said, is &#8220;\u2018Look, we&#8217;re in rough shape right now. This is the reality.'&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. Bernie Sanders (I., Vt.) on Monday criticized the state of the economy under President Joe Biden, saying the middle class is falling behind amid high inflation.<br \/>\nThe post \u2018Rough Shape\u2019: Bernie Trashes Biden Economy appeared first on Washington Free Beacon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":160,"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-1660351","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\/1660351","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\/160"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1660351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1660351\/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=1660351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1660351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1660351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}