Bidenomics Is an Easy Sell If Presented Broadly Enough
The White House’s talking points on its economic policies are far too narrow to showcase what they have accomplished.
Right policies, bad message.
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Despite the economy enjoying its best non-pandemic era back-to-back quarters of growth since 2014, the Biden administration continues to struggle to come up with the right words to promote the successes of “ Bidenomics.” And what it does say falls flat.
Republican Senator John Kennedy of Louisiana recently asked Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen whether “these high prices caused by Bidenomics are here to stay?” Yellen rejected the notion that President Joe Biden’s economic policies were the root cause of elevated inflation. Her response that she doesn’t “expect the level of prices to come down” but “wages have risen considerably” and “price inflation is coming down” was factually correct but weak. Kennedy shot back, saying “but if you don’t get a pay raise, you’re screwed.”