Scott Jennings Drops Hammer On CNN Panel For Complaining About Prices After Biden’s ‘Historic Inflation’

Republican strategist Scott Jennings told liberal CNN panelists Monday night they had no room to complain about prices under President Donald Trump after the “historic inflation” under the Biden administration.

The Consumer Price Index (CPI) rose by 3.0% year-over-year in January, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Jennings took umbrage after talk-show host Solomon Jones and former Hillary Clinton campaign aide Karen Finney claimed that Trump wasn’t working on addressing inflation after campaigning on the issue.

“It was funny that he said, you know, he said, ‘Yes, I‘m going to cut government. I’m going to cut waste. I’m going to cut fraud. I’m going to…’ — you know what else he said he was going to cut? Prices. That hasn’t happened. That’s not what —” Jones said before Jennings interjected.

“You want that in four weeks?” Jennings said.

After Jones and Finney claimed Trump had fired 75,000 federal workers instead of reducing prices, Jennings shot back.

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“He got rid of the whole agency,” Finney said, referring to the Trump administration laying off over 90% of the United States Agency for International Development’s (USAID) workforce following a review by the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).

“Do you think it is a legitimate political debating point for the previous administration to have overseen historic inflation for four years, and then you to come out and say, ‘Four weeks, I guess Trump‘s a failure?’” Jennings said.