#shorts On 2/2/2023, a reporter asked White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre, “A couple of weeks ago, when the mayors were in town, the President said he looked forward to an honest debate with Republicans on entitlements. The House Speaker, on Sunday, on “Face the Nation,” was asked if he was going to propose cuts to Medicare and Social Security, and he said no. He said he would take that off the table. He was asked, “Completely?” And he said, “Yeah.”
So is it your sense — is it the sense here that the House Speaker is not being honest when he says that?

MS. JEAN-PIERRE: I think it’s more of, like, there are some facts out there — right? — that we can easily point to, this administration can point to. And I think I did a little bit of that last time … So they’ve been very vocal, and they’ve been very clear. And so, what we’re going to do is we’re going to stand up for the American people, fight for the American people …

other clips of this published longer video is here: https://youtu.be/3ChMl9Qsvfs
Q: House Speaker being honest?
A: they’ve been very vocal, and they’ve been very clear