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brooklynite

(93,873 posts)
Tue May 31, 2022, 05:10 PM May 2022

'My top economic priority': Biden op-ed lays out plan to fight inflation

Source: Politico

President Joe Biden on Monday described inflation as his “top economic priority” and outlined a three-part plan to lower costs for Americans in a Wall Street Journal op-ed.

“I ran for president because I was tired of the so-called trickle-down economy. We now have a chance to build on a historic recovery with an economy that works for working families,” Biden wrote. “The most important thing we can do now to transition from rapid recovery to stable, steady growth is to bring inflation down.”

The White House’s messaging push comes as Biden’s job approval rating among registered voters rests at roughly 42 percent, according to a recent POLITICO/Morning Consult poll, with large numbers of Americans frustrated by a record spike in inflation over the past year.

In response, Biden’s Journal op-ed marked the beginning of a monthlong economic campaign to try to “communicate on our accomplishments to date on the economy,” according to a White House official.


Read more: https://www.politico.com/news/2022/05/31/biden-inflation-op-ed-00035951
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'My top economic priority': Biden op-ed lays out plan to fight inflation (Original Post) brooklynite May 2022 OP
Biden is starting a monthlong economic awareness campaign? Fiendish Thingy May 2022 #1
Start by getting US oil producers to get off their asses. oldsoftie May 2022 #2

Fiendish Thingy

(15,369 posts)
1. Biden is starting a monthlong economic awareness campaign?
Tue May 31, 2022, 06:01 PM
May 2022

The same month of the Congressional hearings? Something is going to get overshadowed on the evening news, and I don’t think it will be the hearings…

oldsoftie

(12,410 posts)
2. Start by getting US oil producers to get off their asses.
Tue May 31, 2022, 06:59 PM
May 2022

Use the DPA or whatever it takes. Leave the SPR alone because its a very short term band aid approach. Pretty much useless to make a big difference.

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