Consumer prices have soared 20.2 percent since Vice President Kamala Harris and President Joe Biden took office 42 months ago, according to the Department of Labor’s Consumer Price Index (CPI).
Americans continue to feel the strain of runaway inflation.
That is the worst inflation record for any president since Jimmy Carter.
Kamala Harris and Joe Biden have spent the last three and a half years promoting the same ideas and touting the same economic programs. That’s now seen as a burden for Harris as she tries to distance herself from Biden’s unpopular programs and economy.
However, Harris is likely to have trouble escaping responsibility for inflation and economic malaise. As vice president, Harris set a record for casting the most tie-breaking votes in the Senate for Biden’s partisan legislation, including some of the largest deficit spending bills in recent history. The $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan, passed with Harris’s tie-breaking vote shortly after Biden and Harris took office, is seen by many economists as a key accelerant of inflation.
A Financial Times/Michigan Ross poll found in May that a majority of voters believe their financial position took a turn for the worse due to Biden’s economic policies, Breitbart News reported.
Biden and Harris have tried to pass the buck for Americans’ unhappiness with the economy. In July, Biden claimed his economic policies have not resonated with people “because the Republican Party and the MAGA Republicans have been opposed to it, and they’ve been beating up on it.”
The Democrat president also claimed that “it’s just taking time for people to see it. And the other thing is, there’s not been a very good job done about saying, ‘This new billion-dollar bridge going over there is brought to you by Joe Biden.’”
It is interesting to note that former President Carter told his son that he plans on voting for Harris in the November presidential election, AFP reported on August 3. Harris, who has chosen radical leftist Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz as her running mate, is running against former President Donald Trump.
PALM BEACH, Florida — Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump told Breitbart News exclusively that Democrat presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris is so radical that she opposes saying “Merry Christmas.”
“She’s openly against Christmas,” Trump said in an exclusive interview at Mar-a-Lago. “Remember me? We will bring back ‘Merry Christmas.’ Remember the stories saying, ‘We need to refuse to say “Merry Christmas?”‘ We brought it back. She’s against saying ‘Merry Christmas.’ When you defund the police, you’re against ‘Merry Christmas,’ and you want open borders. That’s enough. Oh, and she wants to take away your guns. Those four things. You don’t have to go down a whole list of things — you don’t get worse than that. But defund the police — she really wanted to. And she also protected all of those that were killing people that were in jail in Minnesota.”
Trump’s comments refer to an incident in December 2017 — when he was president and Harris was a senator — when she bashed people for saying “Merry Christmas” while illegal aliens did not yet have amnesty for their crime of illegally entering the United States. A recently unearthed video of Harris from that 2017 incident shows her bashing Trump for wishing people a Merry Christmas when illegal alien children did not have citizenship amnestied upon them.
“And when we all sing happy tunes and sing ‘Merry Christmas,’ and wish each other ‘Merry Christmas,’ these children are not going to have a Merry Christmas,” Harris said.
“How dare we speak ‘Merry Christmas.’ How dare we? They will not have a Merry Christmas,” Harris added.
But, now that Harris is the vice president of the United States, she and President Joe Biden have enacted wide-scale open border policies that have let in millions and millions more illegal aliens. Trump said Harris has overseen one of the most radical immigration agendas in history.
“They gave up Remain in Mexico,” Trump told Breitbart News of Harris and Biden. “They got rid of everything. They got rid of our medical situation that if you have a disease, if you have tuberculosis, if you have a disease that’s very contagious. They don’t care — they let them into our country.”
Trump also said Harris and her campaign staff’s efforts to clean up her radical record are unlikely to be successful.
“I don’t see how somebody gets by all of this stuff,” Trump said. “All she can say is, ‘I no longer agree with that.’”
More from Trump’s latest interview with Breitbart News is forthcoming.
Former President Donald Trump unveiled a pledge on Wednesday to fight inflation by cutting energy prices in half, securing the borders from illegal immigration, bringing supply chains back to U.S. soil, and reducing regulatory burdens on American businesses.
In remarks that drew a sharp contrast to the policies of the Biden-Harris administration, Trump told an audience in Asheville, North Carolina, that he would cut energy costs in half, restore home affordability by securing borders and deporting illegal immigrants, impose 10 to 20 percent tariffs on imports from countries he accused of taking advantage of the U.S., and end taxes on tips and Social Security income.
Trump has long criticized the Biden-Harris administration’s energy policies, saying they sparked the surge of inflation that sent prices rising at the fastest rate in four decades. On Wednesday, Trump expanded this line of criticism, arguing that the Biden-Harris administration had eased back on its restrictions on fossil fuels for political reasons and predicting that if elected Harris would return to the anti-fossil fuel, anti-fracking policies she has long defended.
“Now they’re drilling, but the day after the election—if they win this election—the drilling stops,” Trump said. “By contrast, I am announcing today that under my leadership the United States will commit to the ambitious goal of slashing energy prices by half.”
Trump said he would reverse the Biden-Harris policies that thwart energy extraction in the Alaska National Wildlife Refuge. He also promised to end the electric vehicle mandates put in place by the administration.
Trump sought to connect Vice President Kamala Harris to the current administration’s economic problems, especially runaway inflation, pointing out that she was one of the biggest cheerleaders for Biden’s economic policies and the critical tie-breaking vote for many of his key pieces of legislation.
“Kamala has declared that tackling inflation will be a day one priority. Think about it. For her, day one was three-and-a-half years ago,” Trump said. “She says her plan is going to bring down prices. Why didn’t you do it? You’ve been there three-and-a-half years.”
Trump outlined a hopeful, bright vision for the country and the U.S. economy.
“We will have prosperity and we will have peace,” he said. “We will end the era of inflation, mayhem, and misery.”
“Vote Trump and your incomes will soar, your savings will grow, young people will be able to afford a home, and we’ll bring back the American dream better and stronger than ever before,” Trump said.
The surge in illegal immigration during the Biden-Harris administration has pushed up housing prices and strained government budgets, Trump argued.
“I will seal the border. I will send them all back to their countries where they belong. Prices will come down, come down dramatically, and come down fast,” Trump said.
Trump said that the surge in immigration is also endangering the health of Social Security and Medicare. He promised to shore up those programs by deporting illegal immigrants who might someday become a drain on them.
He also said that he would end taxation of Social Security benefits, pointing out that when the tax was first introduced during the Reagan administration it only affected a small number of wealthy beneficiaries. Because the threshold triggering taxes was not indexed for inflation, however, it now imposes taxes on retirees with below the median income in the U.S. That problem has become even worse in recent years thanks to the surge in inflation under Biden-Harris.
Trump reiterated his plans to end taxes on tips and to make the individual tax cuts enacted during his presidency permanent.
On trade, Trump went further than he has in the past, promising to impose tariffs of between 10 and 20 percent on “foreign countries that have been ripping us off for years.” In earlier statements, Trump had proposed a 10 percent tariff.
The tariffs will “bring back millions and millions of jobs and bring in billions and billions of dollars,” Trump said.
Trump asked his audience to contrast his administration to the current Biden-Harris regime.
“Does anyone feel richer under Kamala Harris and crooked Joe? Is anything less expensive?” Trump said. “Are you better off with Harris and Biden than you were under a person named Donald Trump?”
