President Joe Biden’s reelection campaign has two great liabilities: the crisis on the southern border and stubbornly high inflation.
The costs of feeding, housing, educating, and providing healthcare for immigrants released into the United States by Biden is bankrupting big cities and small towns across the country. Grocery, energy, and health insurance prices are causing similar strain on household budgets. Higher interest rates, caused by inflation, have made the key elements of the American dream, home and car ownership, more unaffordable than ever.
On the border when Biden took office, fewer than 2,500 immigrants were being encountered daily on the southern border.
On inflation, prices rose just 1.4% in the 12 months ending in January 2021, and it was the 11th consecutive month that annualized inflation was under 2%. But then Biden threw gasoline on an already recovering economy by passing a $2 trillion spending plan.
The inflation rate has since come down, but because inflation is compounded, consumers are still feeling the pain from the huge spike Biden caused.
Pressed to explain this falsehood the next day, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre did not admit Biden was wrong but instead tried to spin a tale where "The disruption of the supply chain" and "Russia's war in Ukraine" were the sole causes of inflation and Biden's policies had nothing to do with it.
Russia didn't even invade Ukraine until February 2022, when inflation had already hit 7.5%. The Biden retcon timeline simply makes no sense.
For the first three years of his presidency, Biden denied there was a crisis on the southern border.
Mayorkas may want to blame Congress for the border crisis, but again, the data show Congress has given Biden more money to detain immigrants than Biden asked for.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/2964371/the-biden-presidency-retcon/
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