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Shop NowIn a move that seems utterly incongruent with the national conversation, President Joe Biden told supporters on Tuesday that his top priority is to codify abortion into federal law, reversing the SCOTUS decision to overrule Roe v. Wade. It seems someone forgot to tell Karine Jean-Pierre.
But in classic form, the Biden White House insists that the president’s top priority is fighting the inflation that is sapping the purchasing power of the American people and driving families into poverty.
So which is it?
It seems a simple question, but that is the rhetorical trap that Fox News’ Peter Doocy was able to entangle White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre in during a Tuesday briefing.
On Tuesday, Biden told a group of supporters “Here is the promise I make to you and the American people: The first bill that I will send to the Congress will be to codify Roe v. Wade.” He promised that this was his top priority.
But within hours, at the daily media briefing, the wheels had already started to fall off. Doocy when called upon by Jean-Pierre began, “You just said [inflation is] ‘his number-one economic priority.’ We’ve heard the president say inflation is his top domestic priority, but now he’s saying, come next year, his first bill would be abortion-related.”
“So is his number-one domestic priority abortion, or is it inflation?” he asked. It went downhill fast from there.
Jean-Pierre’s response was baffling, she made the claim that Biden has made the economy his top priority for the last 19 months and that he is “working on the economy every day.”
That ‘work’ seems to have borne little fruit in that case, given that in the days since Biden claimed the economy is “strong as hell,” Bloomberg economists have predicted that there is a 100 percent chance the U.S. economy will plunge into a recession soon.
Jean-Pierre of course claimed that the recession is not “because of the work that this president has done,” adding, “We are seeing an economy that is resilient. We are seeing an economy that is going into a transition with more stable growth, more steady growth. And that is because of the work that this president has done.”
Pincered between the confused, shiftless priorities of her flailing employer, it seems that Karine Jean-Pierre was caught between a Peter Doocy and a hard place.
