An investigative reporter for the Washington Examiner said the White House has failed to deliver a convincing message on combating rising inflation in the country.
Discussing on Fox News’s Your World with Neil Cavuto a January report that found 61% of small businesses increased prices since the beginning of the year while inflation ballooned to a 40-year high, reporter Sarah Westwood said the Biden administration has “totally burst their credibility” in how they have tried to downplay the economy’s struggles.
“Virtually everything the Biden White House has said about inflation has been wrong,” Westwood said Tuesday. “They said inflation wasn’t likely. They said it was going to be transitory. They started dismissing it as a minor inconvenience, y’know, the tragedy of the treadmill, in the words of Jen Psaki. They blamed it solely on the supply chain, even though that is really only one part of this equation.”
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Westwood spoke about how the Biden administration has blamed the Christmas holiday season and corporate greed for inflation in the country. She also said the White House seems to think it has “a messaging problem” with regards to inflation when it really has a “policy problem” by not “reaching for the tools available for them to lower prices.”
The panel on which Westwood appeared discussed the White House reportedly “retooling” its message.
Democratic strategist Jenna Arnold said the administration’s new focus “needs to be how we can possibly share our lessons and our burdens together” going forward through the COVID-19 pandemic.
Westwood said the Democrats “are sort of lost for words when it comes to talking about inflation.” The White House has “alienated a lot of voters” with its rhetoric, she added.
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“They would not have supported such a giant stimulus package,” Westwood said. “They would not have essentially subsidized a labor shortage by giving out those enhanced unemployment benefits far longer than was appropriate, and Biden would not have taken months to set forth his nominees for the Federal Reserve, because … policy is how long-term, this is going to get fixed. But Biden didn’t take those nominations seriously, even something he could’ve done unilaterally, so I think voters see that Democrats have contributed significantly to this.”
