On 10/11/2023, Chaos Ensues As NY Post Reporter SLAMS Karine Jean-Pierre For Blacklisting Him From Asking Questions
KJP: All right. I’m going take —
Reporter: You haven’t called on me in two seasons, Karine. Why don’t —
KJP: I’m not calling on you today. Go ahead.
Reporter: All right, Karine —
Reporter: You should be ashamed of that.
KJP: Go ahead.
Reporter: That shows disrespect to a free and independent media.
KJP: I’m going to clo- —
Reporter: Let’s blacklist one of our country’s largest and most widely read newspapers, Karine.
AIDE: We have a hard out in —
Reporter: That shows contempt for a free and independent press.
KJP: Go ahead. I’m calling on somebody who I haven’t called in a long time as well. Go ahead.
Karine Jean-Pierre Falsely Claims Biden Has Reduced Deficit Even Though He Has ADDED To Deficit
Karine Jean-Pierre Apparently Misspeaks, Slams “Congressional Democrats” For Economic Policy
Reporter: the CBO yesterday said that the budget deficit totaled $1.7 trillion, which is an increase from $300 billion from last year. Why did the deficit increase if the U.S. economy is doing so well, as President Biden has said?
KJP: So, a couple of things. As you know, the President has — when it comes to the deficit, he has done a record amount of work in reducing the deficit, as you just laid out. And one of the things that we have seen is that congressional Democrats continue to do the trickle-down economics, which we know — we know it doesn’t work — right? — what you’ve heard us call “MAGA-nomics,” right?
And so, it has increased the deficit. It has — it has — it increased even more than we had — than it was anticipated. And so, this is what we believe is MAGA-nomics deficit.
And the reason why — just a couple of things to lay out here. If you think about the Republican tax cuts, they are responsible for about 90 percent of the increase in the debt as a share of the economy. And that’s over the last two decades, right? This is for — for some time now. And — and that’s including that one-time emergency spending.
And — and so, if you look at 2023 — the increase, as you just laid out — the fall — the falling tax revenue caused 63 percent of the increase in the deficit. And the non-interest spending was not responsible for the increase in the deficit in 2023, but it’s causing just 6 percent of the increase.
So, that’s how we see this — the — the numbers from the CBO. That’s how we kind of break it down. That’s how it’s been broken down and — and how we see why the deficit has increased.
Again, this is decades and decades, if you think about it, of trickle-down economics that just doesn’t work. It doesn’t work. And we see that in the numbers from yesterday.
Q: junk fees disclosures, Whac-A-Mole?
Reporter: On junk fees. Most of the fees they talked about are disclosures and don’t reduce. But the ones that do reduce, isn’t this just a game of Whac-A-Mole and those fees will pop up somewhere else?
KJP: Look — no, not at all. These are — FTC rule covers many junk fees. And just to lay out a little bit — and I think you’ve heard this from — from many of our folks here in the past 24 hours why this is so important. They cost consumers tens of billions of dollars, if you think about junk fees. That’s what they cost consumers.
And this FTC rule would ban many of them, as I just laid out and — including event tickets, hotels, car rentals, delivery apps, and apartment rentals. And so, this is a CF- — CF- — CFPB’s crackdown. It’s important.
The Pr- — the President has been very clear throughout his — when he talks about his economic plan, when he talks about how he’s going to move forward to deliver for the American people in lowering costs. And this is part of that: lowering costs, making people’s lives — Americans’ lives a little bit easier.
So, we do not see this as a Whac-A-Mole. We believe that the junk fees will cover the — will cover many — many of the fees that we see out there, as I just listed out.
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KJP Blacklisting Reporter, Reduced Deficit, MAGA-nomics Deficit increase, Slams Congressional Dems