As with every issue, Biden claims to be a helpless bystander on inflation

[Valin]

The Washington Examiner

Zachary Faria, Commentary Fellow

November 13, 2021\

President Joe Biden still has no answer when it comes to inflation. In fact, he is doing everything he can to downplay the issue.

Inflation has become a drag on Biden’s poll numbers and on the chances of passing the now $1.85 trillion Build Back Better Act that he has been trying to win centrist Democrats over on. A CNN fact check came to Biden’s defense, claiming that it is “false” to exclusively blame Democratic spending policies and noting that supply chain disruptions and global oil production are also to blame.

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Just as with immigration , Afghanistan , and unemployment , Biden and his allies want us to think that he is nothing but a bystander. It can never be his fault or the fault of the policies he has pursued and implemented. The world is simply out of his control. It’s OPEC that isn’t boosting production, not Biden’s failed energy policies. It’s those oh-so-complicated supply chains that are to blame, not Biden’s COVID-19 stimulus and unemployment policies.

It’s become Biden’s go-to move. Everything that happens under his watch is either inevitable or irrelevant. Inflation has somehow become both, as Biden ignores his own role in the issue while promising that he has a magic solution as he continues to trudge through with his own agenda.

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