According to the Labor Department’s Consumer Price Index (CPI), consumer prices have risen 20.2% since Vice President Kamala Harris and President Joe Biden took office 42 months ago.
Americans continue to feel the pressure of skyrocketing inflation.
that teeth The worst inflation record since President Jimmy Carter.
Kamala Harris and Joe Biden have spent the last three and a half years promoting the same ideas and touting the same economic policies, which has been seen as a burden for Harris as she tries to distance herself from Biden’s unpopular policies and economy.
But it will be hard for Harris to escape responsibility for inflation and the economic downturn. As vice president, she casting That’s the most Senate runoff votes on Biden’s partisan bill, which includes the largest budget deficit bill in recent history. The $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan, passed in a runoff vote by Harris shortly after Biden and Harris took office, is seen by many economists as a major factor in accelerating inflation.
a Financial Times/A Michigan Ross poll in May found that a majority of voters believe Biden’s economic policies have made their financial situation worse, Breitbart News reported.
Biden and Harris have tried to shift the blame for public discontent with the economy, with Biden arguing in July that his economic policies are not resonating with Americans because “Republicans and MAGA Republicans are opposing it and are violently attacking it.”
The Democratic president also argued, “It’s just taking time for people to understand that. And the other thing is, it’s not been promoted very well: ‘This new billion-dollar bridge over there was built by Joe Biden.'”
Interestingly, former President Carter told his son that he intends to vote for Harris in the November presidential election, AFP reported on August 3. Harris will be running against former President Donald Trump, with far-left Minnesota Governor Tim Walz as her running mate.
