Biden jokes about getting impeached over falling inflation
Haisten Willis
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President Joe Biden took a dig at House Republicans considering an impeachment inquiry into the president during a speech in Maine.
Plugging American manufacturing and “Bidenomics” at a local factory in Auburn, the president said falling inflation might get the attention of Republicans in Congress.
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“Republicans may have to find something else to criticize me for now that inflation is coming down,” he said. “Maybe they’ll decide to impeach me because it’s coming down. I don’t know.”
Inflation has fallen from 9.1% last June to 3% this month, good news for Biden as he runs for a second term. The figure was just 1.4% the month he took office.
The comment also swipes at Republican talk in Congress of an impeachment inquiry regarding the Biden family’s foreign business dealings during the senior Biden’s time as vice president. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) has hinted at a future inquiry, though the party is split on the idea.
The White House denies the president was ever in business with his son Hunter.
Biden spoke at Auburn Manufacturing, a female-owned firm in Maine, as part of a wider tour to push his “Made in America” agenda. The president is working hard to keep union voters in his column and has pledged that more products will be made in the country.
“Instead of exporting American jobs, we’re creating American jobs and exporting American products again,” Biden said. “That’s how we make money.”
That’s in contrast to the recent past, he said, when towns were hollowed out across the country as manufacturing jobs were outsourced. Roughly 45,000 manufacturing jobs left Maine alone between 1990 and 2010, Biden claimed.
Biden called himself the most pro-labor senator in America in what appeared to be a gaffe — the president represented Delaware in the upper chamber for decades — and promised that taxpayer dollars would be spent on products made domestically by domestic employees.
“Every federal infrastructure project will be built by American workers using American products creating American jobs,” he said to applause.
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Republicans point to factors such as falling real wages and rising interest rates to argue that the Biden economy is nothing to brag about, while the president promises it will continue improving as he works toward reelection.
“I’m not here to declare victory on the economy. We have more work to do,” Biden said. “Bidenomics is just another way of saying we’re restoring the American dream.”