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Elections 2024 / Re: White House forced to respond to Biden’s debunked inflation claim
« Last post by LMAO on Today at 04:49:40 pm »Bullhockey.
The "American Rescue Plan Act of 2021", which was the third Covid stimulus bill, threw 1.9 trillion in cash into the economy, and was passed and signed by Biden in March 2021. One consequence of that was turbo-charging inflation. So for Biden to blame the underlying condition entirely on Trump is disingenuous as hell. However....
Back in December 2020, Trump himself pushed Congress to pass a massive stimulus bill in December 2020 that would have included $2000 stimulus checks, but McConnell opposed it as too expensive and killed it. So sure, we can and should blame Biden. The problem is that Trump wanted to pass a bill even bigger than the one Biden eventually passed, so Trump has no room to talk in terms of blaming Biden for inflation. Here's Trump slamming McConnell for not approving that larger stimulus bill in December 2020:
https://x.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1343998076084748288
And here's NANCY PELOSI agreeing with Trump pushing for the larger bill and demanding that GOP leadership get it done:
https://x.com/SpeakerPelosi/status/1341557535732604935
Yup
Both Trump and Biden share part of the blame equally on inflation
And some still wonder why some of us refuse to vote for more of that