Karine Jean-Pierre Slammed for Defending ‘Bidenomics’
White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre is facing backlash for defending “Bidenomics.” On Monday she stated during a White House press conference, “What we’ve seen is that wages have gotten stronger, have…
White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre is facing backlash for defending “Bidenomics.”
On Monday she stated during a White House press conference, “What we’ve seen is that wages have gotten stronger, have increased!”
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This was in response to Twitter adding a community note to a tweet President Joe Biden sent out on Sunday which claimed that, “Right now, real wages for the average American worker is higher than it was before the pandemic, with lower wage workers seeing the largest gains.”
The note said, “The tweet’s claim about real wages contains a factual error.”
It argued that pre-lockdown wages were $11.15, adjusted for inflation, but current wages sit at $11.05.
Along with Twitter’s fact-check, users also slammed Jean-Pierre’s response.
RNC Research posted a clip of her stating, “Everything that you are seeing with our Economy being stronger, wages going up … is because of Bidenomics