White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre on Thursday got into a back-and-forth exchange with a reporter who questioned President Biden’s inaccurate claim that inflation is higher “everywhere” else than in the US.
The annual US inflation rate hit a fresh 40-year high of 8.6% in May, but Biden on Tuesday claimed that Americans are faring better than other countries — even though data from other countries show otherwise.
“Why is the president saying that inflation is worse everywhere but here?” Fox News correspondent Peter Doocy asked Jean-Pierre at her regular briefing.
“First of all, inflation is a global challenge as you have said, It is caused by, clearly, the pandemic — this was the generation pandemic that we are coming out of. And also, most recently, the war that Putin started in Ukraine that has caused inflation as we look at food and as we look at gas prices,” Jean-Pierre said.
“So if you look at globally other countries, and if you look at where we are economically, when you think about the Group of Seven — the G7 — we are in a much stronger place than we are economically than the rest.”
But Doocy followed up, “He says the inflation is worse everywhere but here. That’s not true. The US has worse inflation in Germany, France, Japan, Canada, India, Italy, Saudi Arabia. So why is he saying that?”
Jean-Pierre replied, “I think what we are saying is that when you talk about inflation, it is a global thing. And it is not just about the United States. This is...
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