Pants on fire! Biden claims he’ll ‘lower your costs and the deficit’

Published March 2, 2022 3:52am ET



During the first State of the Union of his presidency, Joe Biden declared his plan to fight the worst inflation in 40 years would “lower your costs and lower the deficit.”

First, Biden claims he would cut the cost of prescription drugs. That’s a nice gesture, but one that will do nothing for the overall price inflation rate of 7.5% annually. Prescription drugs have only increased 2.5% since the start of the pandemic.

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