{"id":1700405,"date":"2022-10-17T15:49:11","date_gmt":"2022-10-17T19:49:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1700405"},"modified":"2022-10-17T15:49:16","modified_gmt":"2022-10-17T19:49:16","slug":"who-exactly-thinks-the-president-is-doing-a-good-job-on-inflation-peter-doocy-corners-karine-jean-pierre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/who-exactly-thinks-the-president-is-doing-a-good-job-on-inflation-peter-doocy-corners-karine-jean-pierre\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Who Exactly Thinks The President Is Doing A Good Job On Inflation?\u2019 Peter Doocy Corners Karine Jean-Pierre"},"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\">34<\/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%2Fwho-exactly-thinks-the-president-is-doing-a-good-job-on-inflation-peter-doocy-corners-karine-jean-pierre%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=1700405&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>White House Press Secretary <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/karine-jean-pierre\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Karine Jean-Pierre<\/a> appeared to have trouble answering direct questions about the recent inflation numbers and what President <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/joe-biden\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Joe Biden\u2019s<\/a> administration was doing to provide relief for the American people.<\/p>\n<p>Fox News White House correspondent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/peter-doocy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Peter Doocy<\/a> hit Jean-Pierre with a series of questions during Monday\u2019s briefing, beginning by asking why \u2014 if Biden truly believed that combatting inflation was his primary domestic goal \u2014 Americans weren\u2019t seeing any real progress.<\/p>\n<p><strong>WATCH:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">DOOCY TIME: &#8220;[I]f [Biden&#8217;s] top domestic priority is inflation, why doesn&#8217;t he have more to show for it?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>KJP: &#8220;So, [he] understands\u2026inflation is an issue\u2026Cost is an issue for the American people, and so he&#8217;s been very clear about making that his #1 economic priority&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/jmJXsfAjMQ\">pic.twitter.com\/jmJXsfAjMQ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CurtisHouck\/status\/1582069068911083521?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 17, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cFollowing up on something you said earlier, if President Biden\u2019s top domestic priority is inflation, why doesn\u2019t he have more to show for it?\u201d Doocy asked.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo, the president understands, and we\u2019ve talked about this many times, that inflation is an issue \u2026 high cost \u2026 cost is an issue for the American people, and so he\u2019s been very clear about making that his number one economic priority. And he has done the work,\u201d Jean-Pierre insisted.<\/p>\n<p>The press secretary went on to tout the Inflation Reduction Act, claiming that it was \u201cgoing to lower costs\u201d for seniors across the country by capping Medicare prescription costs and throwing in a dig at Republicans who had not voted for the measure. She then focused on Republicans, claiming that they would move to repeal the Inflation Reduction Act if they could and arguing that would only \u201cmake things worse.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Doocy pushed back, asking, \u201cBut who exactly thinks the president is doing a good job on inflation? Because we\u2019ve got a poll that finds he receives his lowest job ratings on inflation, net negative 38 points.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe understand that there are challenges that are in front of us here in this country, that is why the president has taken action to lower costs,\u201d Jean-Pierre argued, mentioning gas prices as an example despite the fact that gas prices have been on the rise again in recent days.<\/p>\n<p><strong>WATCH:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Doocy: &#8220;Have [Biden&#8217;s] economic advisors told him the general consensus now is that the American Rescue Plan has contributed to inflation?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>KJP: &#8220;Look, Sec. Yellen, who is incredibly well respected\u2026has spoken to this\u2026[His policies] are popular w\/the American people.&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/LXLEaymw0Q\">pic.twitter.com\/LXLEaymw0Q<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CurtisHouck\/status\/1582070063523278848?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 17, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cHave the president\u2019s economic advisors told him the general consensus now is that the American Rescue Plan has contributed to inflation?\u201d Doocy pressed once more.<\/p>\n<p>Jean-Pierre argued that Biden\u2019s policies were popular with the American people and deflected on the economic question, adding, \u201cLook, Sec. Yellen, who is incredibly well respected as you know in the economic space, has spoken to this so I will leave her words speak to that, to the statement that you just made.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre appeared to have trouble answering direct questions about the recent inflation numbers and what President Joe Biden\u2019s administration was doing to provide relief for the American people. Fox News White House correspondent Peter Doocy hit Jean-Pierre with a series of questions during Monday\u2019s briefing, beginning by asking why \u2014 &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1890400,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1700405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1700405","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=1700405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1700405\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1890400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1700405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1700405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1700405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}