Fox News White House correspondent Peter Doocy confronted Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre during Thursday’s press briefing, disputing President Joe Biden’s claim that inflation was worse everywhere outside the United States.
Doocy pressed Jean-Pierre on the president’s claim several times — noting that inflation rates were actually higher in several other countries — prompting Jean-Pierre to revert immediately to what appeared to be the White House’s proscribed talking point on the topic.
“Why is the president saying that — pardon — why is the president saying that inflation is worse everywhere but here?” Doocy asked.
“Because what we have seen across the globe,” Jean-Pierre began. “First of all, inflation is a global challenge, as we have said. It is — it is — it is — it is caused by, clearly, the pandemic, this once in a generation pandemic that we are coming out of. And also most recently the war that — that Putin started in Ukraine that has caused inflation as we looked at food and as we looked at gas prices.”
“So if you look at globally, other countries, and if you look at where we are economically, when you think about the Group 7, the G-7, we are in a much stronger place than we are economically than the rest,” Jean-Pierre replied.
Doocy immediately pushed back, listing several countries that were facing higher inflation rates than the United States.
This is an excerpt from The Daily Wire.
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