Republican Congressman Jim Jordan, who has shown time and again that he’s a self-righteous fraud who’s always lying, and whose “arguments” are always easily picked apart, got more than what he bargained for when he tried to tie gas prices one year after the coronavirus pandemic locked down the economy to President Joe Biden.
“Average gas price: June 2020: $2.21 June 2021: $3.07,” Jordan tweeted on Monday. “President Biden’s economy!”
Of course, Jordan conveniently omitted the context that the U.S. economy was in ruins a year ago due to Donald Trump’s disastrous mismanagement of the pandemic.
White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki was having none of it:
“You forgot to mention that gas prices are the same now as they were in June 2018. Or that this time last year unemployment was 11.1% — today it’s 5.8%,” she said. “@POTUS agrees families shouldn’t pay more at the pump – that’s why he’s opposed to GOP proposals to raise the gas tax.”
Republicans have been ramping up criticism of Biden’s energy proposals and see rising prices at the pump as a window to seize on frustrations of cash-strapped Americans ahead of next year’s midterm elections.
The fall in gas prices last year, however, was mostly because of the worldwide economic crisis.
You forgot to mention that gas prices are the same now as they were in June 2018. Or that this time last year unemployment was 11.1% — today it’s 5.8%.@POTUS agrees families shouldn’t pay more at the pump – that’s why he’s opposed to GOP proposals to raise the gas tax. https://t.co/tc5cDXrbJR
— Jen Psaki (@PressSec) June 21, 2021
