Democratic vice presidential nominee, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, was stumped Tuesday when a reporter asked him to explain what he and Vice President Kamala Harris would do to help families in financial difficulty.
in Interview In an interview with WMAZ, a local CBS affiliate in Macon, Georgia, Walz began by saying that he and Harris understand the issues because they are “middle class.”
He then made a series of proposals that had nothing to do with inflation.
I tell them, Kamala Harris and I know something about middle-class people. Our families sit at the table and work to pay their bills. We know prices will remain the same even after the COVID-19 pandemic is over, and people will need some relief.
And I think that's why Kamala Harris announced a plan, specifically around homeownership, to build 3 million more affordable housing units and make sure there's down payment assistance.
We try to maintain caps on drug prices, especially for seniors, and it's working.
And ensuring investment in rural areas, including through investment laws that have created a lot of new jobs in infrastructure and other areas. These are things that we are beginning to grasp.
Homeownership has nothing to do with families struggling to pay their bills. Lowering drug prices was initiated by President Donald Trump and has been credited by President Joe Biden. And investing in infrastructure is a long-term project. Indeed, the Biden-Harris administration's slow infrastructure progress (just eight charging stations in three years) calls into question Harris' housing promises.
Waltz also falsely claimed that Trump's inflation-fighting plan included a “national sales tax.” As Breitbart News pointed out the last time the Harris-Waltz campaign used this lie, Trump has never proposed a national sales tax, which is Democrat-speak for the tariffs that Trump has used and promised to use to protect American industry. The Biden-Harris administration has never repealed these tariffs, and only recently did so. Increased.
