#shorts On 10/24/2022, White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre repeatedly talks about the Hatch Act, even as she promoted Democratic midterm election messaging and attacked Republicans, “Of course, I have to be careful of what I say, because we do respect the Hatch Act here in this administration.

And you have congressional Republicans who want to take that away, who do — who do not want to see Americans have lower healthcare costs, who do not want to see Americans have lower energy costs. The first thing that they said that they would do is repeal the Inflation Reduction Act — which, by the way, pieces of that, if you look at it in its parts, every part of that is popular with the American people.

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So, when I — because I also have to be very careful here in talking about elections or politics.

They also have said that they were going to repeal Inflation Reduction Act. Again, that’s going to — if they do that, it will take away … They would take that away in a — in a time when middle class families are dealing with inflation. They want to take that away.

White House knows Hatch Act but still attacks Republicans