Jean-Pierre: Biden’s Top Priority Is “Dealing With” Economy Amid 25 Months Of Negative Real Wages
Fox News reporter Peter Doocy asked Karine Jean-Pierre, “What is President Biden’s top domestic priority?”

KJP: Well, we’ve always — we’ve always been very clear that his economic — clearly, his economic policy is something that’s important; especially when he walked into this administration, the economy was on its head … that was — that was not ex- — that was not existing — and not his — with the last administration. And what the President had to do — right? — to make sure that we were dealing …

Doocy: And so, today he’s talking about climate. There’s a lot of action with China, and you mentioned high prices. So what is the — what is the top priority overall?

KJP: This — he is the President of the United States. There are multiple issues, multiple topics that the President has to deal with. That is the job of the President, right? He talked about climate. It was not just about climate.

Karine Jean-Pierre Says She Has No Info On Why Chinese Spyware App TikTok Hasn’t Yet Been Banned
Doocy: And one more. Why hasn’t TikTok been banned yet?

KJP: Look, as you know, there’s a CFIUS review. I’m going to just leave it there. That is — it’s being reviewed by that — by that committee. And so the President thinks it’s an important issue to deal with, but I just don’t have anything else to add beyond that.

Q: work requirements for welfare recipients won’t work now A: saved 21M Medicaid

Reporter: … former New York Congressman Ed Towns, who was once the head the Congressional Black Caucus, who was in the House when this happened with work requirements for welfare recipients during the Clinton years. He said, “It didn’t work then, and it won’t work now.” He said, “It’s going to create pain and suffering.” And he said, “This should have been done during the budget process versus now.”

What do you say to this congressman who was there, who actually was congressman who –- Hakeem Jeffries filled his seat. What do you say to that congressman and others who feel that this is pain and suffering that you are eliciting on those who are the least of these in this nation?

KJP: … We were talking about potentially cutting Medicaid, which would have taken healthcare away from 21 million Americans. We protected that. Right?

When you think about creating SNAP eligibility expansion for veterans, for homeless people, for young people coming out of foster care of all ages, it’s going to protect — it’s going to expand that.

So, there are things in this budget — bipartisan budget agreement that is so important to those everyday people, to those hardworking Americans — that is incredibly important.

Look, here’s the reality: When you negotiate in this way, you’re — no one is going to get everything that they — that they want. That is just the reality of negotiating.

Q: Republicans asked & received work requirements A: GOP proposal is temporary, major expansion
Reporter: And lastly, a follow-up on this, though: Did the White House do a compare-and-contrast to yesterday, understanding Republicans had asked and received work requirements during the Clinton years? Did the administration look into that to see the successes, lessons learned, et cetera?

And also, to the congressman who was also the former head of Oversight –- the first Black head of Oversight and Government Reform — he questions, once again, what efforts — how exhaustive were the efforts to not have this in this moment instead of dealing with it in the budget, putting it in the budget discussion moment? Why now?

KJP: Look, I want to go back to the workers’ requirement question that you asked.

Reporter: Yes.

KJP: I mentioned the 21 million Americans who we protected — the President was able to protect from losing their healthcare. There’s food assistance that was at risk for nearly 1 million Americans … Look, again, you know, it is important, we believe, for — for Americans to not lose their healthcare. And that’s what the President was able to do. You know, and — look, the President’s insistence that the GOP proposal for SNAP is temporary. And — and the bill includes a major expansion, again, for van- — for veterans; for — for homeless, for people who are homeless; for former fost- — foster youth. All of those things truly matter. And the combined impact of these provisions is that the number of people subject to SNAP work requirements will likely stay roughly the same, and so that’s another thing that’s important to note.

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Biden’s Top Priority “Dealing With” Economy; welfare work requirements temporary, major expansion