{"id":878770,"date":"2021-10-14T10:43:46","date_gmt":"2021-10-14T14:43:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=878770"},"modified":"2021-10-14T10:43:49","modified_gmt":"2021-10-14T14:43:49","slug":"bidens-chief-of-staff-calls-inflation-a-high-class-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bidens-chief-of-staff-calls-inflation-a-high-class-problem\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden\u2019s Chief Of Staff Calls Inflation A \u2018High Class Problem\u2019"},"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%2Fbidens-chief-of-staff-calls-inflation-a-high-class-problem%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=878770&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><\/div>\n<aside id=\"right1forarticles\">\n<\/aside>\n<div id=\"ob-read-more-selector\" readability=\"42.831081081081\">\n<p>President Joe Biden\u2019s chief of staff retweeted a claim that inflation is a \u201chigh class problem\u201d Thursday, dismissing the millions of Americans who are seeing prices for daily necessities spike.<\/p>\n<p>White House chief of staff Ronald Klain gave a full-throated endorsement of a former Obama administration official who argued that the current inflation and supply chain chaos impacts only high class Americans. The Biden administration has worked frantically in recent weeks to stave off mounting backlogs in U.S. supply chains. The White House also <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/10\/12\/biden-white-house-warns-american-consumers-empty-shelves-christmastime\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">warned Tuesday<\/a> that American consumers should expect higher prices and even some empty shelves come Christmastime. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/10\/06\/its-unprecedented-builders-running-out-of-key-construction-materials-forced-to-find-alternatives\/\">(RELATED:&nbsp;\u2018It\u2019s Unprecedented\u2019: Builders Running Out Of Key Construction Materials, Forced To Find Alternatives)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-partner=\"tweetdeck\" readability=\"4.1\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">This \ud83d\udc47\ud83d\udc47 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ymh53nEHAg\">https:\/\/t.co\/ymh53nEHAg<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ronald Klain (@WHCOS) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WHCOS\/status\/1448473693651341317?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 14, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cMost of the economic problems we\u2019re facing (inflation, supply chains, etc.) are high class problems. We wouldn\u2019t have had them if the unemployment rate was still 10 percent. We would instead have had a much worse problem,\u201d wrote Jason Furman, a Harvard professor and former member of President Barack Obama\u2019s administration. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2020\/10\/05\/washington-post-columnist-jennifer-rubin-congress-defund-walter-reed-coronavirus\/\">(RELATED: Washington Post Columnist Jennifer Rubin Suggests Congress Should \u2018Defund Walter Reed\u2019)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Klain\u2019s tweet conflicts with statements from other senior administration officials from earlier this week, who warned that Christmas shopping is likely to be heavily impacted for Americans.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere will be things that people can\u2019t get,\u201d a senior White House official&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/us\/americans-may-not-get-some-christmas-treats-white-house-officials-warn-2021-10-12\/?utm_medium=Social&amp;utm_source=twitter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">told Reuters on Tuesday<\/a>. \u201cAt the same time, a lot of these goods are hopefully substitutable by other things \u2026 I don\u2019t think there\u2019s any real reason to be panicked, but we all feel the frustration and there\u2019s a certain need for patience to help get through a relatively short period of time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A Sept. 29 study from Salesforce&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/nationworldnews.com\/consumers-brace-for-even-more-inflation-this-christmas-shopping-season\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">predicted<\/a>&nbsp;that retail prices could rise as much as 20% compared to 2020. Women\u2019s clothing, jewelry and watches had already risen 11.9% and 12.9% respectively as of August.<\/p>\n<p>The Biden administration has negotiated for major corporations such as Walmart and international ports to maintain 24\/7 operation to help alleviate supply chain backlogs. The president will also <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/10\/12\/joe-biden-administration-lift-canada-mexico-land-border-travel-restrictions-november\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">lift travel restrictions<\/a> for the Mexican and Canadian borders in early November, allowing fully-vaccinated foreign nationals to travel freely into the U.S.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Joe Biden\u2019s chief of staff retweeted a claim that inflation is a \u201chigh class problem\u201d Thursday, dismissing the millions of Americans who are seeing prices for daily &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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-878770","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\/878770","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=878770"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/878770\/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=878770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=878770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=878770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}