The Great Joe Rogan Debate Was Great for the Right
CNN's Scott Jennings Delivered Another Masterclass in Owning the Libs on Trust in...
Democrats Move to Destroy the Earth
Correspondent From Defamation Network CNN Asks New-Media Reporters If They Are 'Real' Jour...
Take Out Iran's Nuclear Facilities Now
Electric Vehicles: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Willful Idiots
The Illegal Aid Society Is Making New York Unsafe
'Round Up the Usual Suspects'
Restoring Integrity in America's Student Loan System
Young Minds, Big Sound: Students Experience the Magic of Live Orchestral Music at...
Caraveo Faces Lukewarm Reception As Democrats Push for More Progressive Candidate, Giving...
Trump Signs Multiple Executive Orders on Education, Including Against Accreditors Using DE...
As Van Hollen Defends Illegal Immigrant, a New 'Maryland Man' Is Charged With...
Yet Another Outlet Goes for Hit Piece Against Pete Hegseth, and This One...
Tipsheet

'False': Jen Psaki Gets Fact Checked Over Inflation Claim

AP Photo/Andrew Harnik

White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki was called out by PolitiFact for claiming, in reference to the $1.75 trillion spending bill, that "no economist out there is projecting that this will have a negative impact on inflation.” 

Advertisement

Turns out even PolitiFact is willing to acknowledge that statement is just “wrong.”

“Numerous economists, including some who are supportive of the White House’s agenda, have gone on the record saying there probably will be inflationary effects, especially in the near term, if the bill is passed,” the fact checker said in its summary. 

"I’m an economist, and I disagree," Douglas Holtz-Eakin, president of the center-right American Action Forum, told PolitiFact.

"We know there’s lots of spending in the bill, and that it’s front-loaded" into the earlier years, he said. "If you cut taxes and increase spending, financed by debt, that will put upward pressure on inflation."

Other economists have expressed the same view.

Ethan Harris, head of global economics research at Bank of America: "You should wind up with primarily a deficit-financed spending bill that is going to be rolled out in an economy near full employment … . It will make the labor market even hotter and create even more price pressure.’’

Michael Feroli, chief U.S. economist for JPMorgan Chase: "Right now, anything that expands aggregate demand is not warranted, not advisable. … The economy seems to be operating pretty close to its capacity constraints."

Some economists have said the inflationary effects will be modest and manageable, but that they will exist.

For instance, Noah Smith, a former Bloomberg opinion columnist and a former assistant professor of finance at Stony Brook University, wrote, "I expect Biden’s bills to push upward on inflation, rather than downward. That said, the inflationary impact will be very small." (PolitiFact)

Advertisement

The Build Back Better legislation passed the House last week 220-213, with one Democrat joining Republicans in voting against the bill, which now faces an uncertain future in the Senate. 

According to Fox News, this was the first time PolitiFact fact-checked a claim from Psaki since she became White House press secretary.

Join the conversation as a VIP Member

Recommended

Trending on Townhall Videos

Advertisement
Advertisement
Advertisement