National Security Council Coordinator for Strategic Communications John Kirby says President Biden is ‘speaking honestly with the American people’ about high gas prices after Jeff Bezos’ attack

On Sunday, Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon, said that President Joe Biden is intentionally or unintentionally leading the United States in the wrong direction.

The Biden administration is responding by criticizing the billionaire.

In the White House’s initial response to being criticized by Bezos late the previous evening, National Security Council Coordinator for Strategic Communications John Kirby stated that his boss would take “great exception” to being accused of misleading the American people during an interview on Fox News Sunday.

Amazon’s founder objected to a message sent by Vice President Biden’s official White House account to businesses that charge exorbitant gas prices, warning of “a time of war and global peril” and requesting that they “bring down the price you are charging at the pump to reflect the cost you’re paying for the product.” and act right away.

‘Ouch.

The White House should stop making remarks like this about inflation, the billionaire responded in a retweet.

It either involves blatant misrepresentation or a profound misunderstanding of fundamental market dynamics.

However, when asked about the allegation on television the following morning, Kirby responded that “neither” was the case.

The American people are certainly experiencing agony at the gas pump; the current price is, what, $5 per gallon?

The official continued, “And the president is working very, very hard on several fronts to try and bring down that price.

He emphasized Biden’s efforts to cut gas prices in recent months, all of which had been insufficient to stop the increase that had only started to decline in the last three weeks.

The actions cited by Kirby include working with G7 leaders to set a price cap on Russian oil, releasing record amounts of oil from the US Strategic Petroleum Reserve, and urging Congress to approve a three-month summer gas tax vacation.

He asserted that if everyone worked together, we could lower the cost at least by around a dollar per gallon.

Biden “knows the impact high gas prices have on the American household,” according to Kirby.

When questioned explicitly about Bezos’ claim of “misdirection,” Kirby responded, “Anyone who knows President Biden knows he’s plainspoken.”

He expresses himself clearly and in language that everybody can comprehend, according to Kirby. Consequently, we certainly object strongly to the notion that this is in some way a form of misdirection.

“The president is speaking honestly with the American people about what he’s attempting to do to lower the prices, but he was honest even before the invasion,” the statement reads.

As of Sunday, Americans were spending an average of $4.81 for gas for the July 4th holiday weekend.

Reporter Chen Weihua for the Chinese official media also made fun of the president’s remarks.

In a mocking tweet, the communist mouthpiece highlighted how Biden was attempting to undercut the laws of supply and demand, which control pricing in a free-market economy like the US one.

‘Now US President finally recognized that capitalism is all about exploitation,’ Weihua tweeted. Before, he didn’t think this was true.

When responding to the president’s tweet that said, “Let me be clear: capitalism without competition isn’t capitalism,” the reporter posted something akin to what Biden did in 2021. The act is exploitation.

“Capitalism is all about exploitation,” Weihua commented at the time. Period.’

Senator Ted Cruz of Texas was another who responded and tweeted: “My message to the guy handling your teleprompter.”

YOU are at blame. Gas prices will drop quickly if the numerous executive directives, regulations, and agency activities that are directed at American energy are reversed.

In a speech on June 22, the president addressed the oil industry, saying, in part, “These are not normal times. Reduce the price you’re asking at the pump to reflect what you actually spend to buy the product.

Biden is pleading with businesses to lower their costs just days after his administration was unable to convince his own party to support a 90-day gas tax holiday.

According to a study from NBC, the typical American would only save 12 cents per gallon if the tax break was implemented.

The Wall Street Journal stated earlier this week that the Biden administration “plans to prevent new offshore oil drilling in the Atlantic and Pacific oceans” as gas prices for American consumers continue to soar.

Since March 2022, the president has attempted to pin the responsibility for inflation on Vladimir Putin of Russia, referring to it as “Putin’s price hike.”

The term, according to a Democratic Party strategist who spoke to Politico in June, was not connecting with voters.

Feeling their suffering is far more vital than trying to describe it. Other strategists were noted in the article as saying that the phrase appeared to be “moving blame rather than solving problems.”

Last but not least, Jerome Powell, the chairman of the Federal Reserve, defied the Biden administration by acknowledging that inflation had been high even before Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February.

Nevertheless, the plan does permit oil corporations to lease drilling sites in Alaska’s Cook Inlet and the Gulf of Mexico until 2028.

During his presidential campaign in 2020, Biden pledged to halt new oil and gas drilling on federal lands and waters.

Biden declared: “No more drilling on public lands, no more drilling, including offshore – no ability for the oil industry to continue to drill, period” during a one-on-one discussion with fellow Democrat Bernie Sanders.

Vice President Kamala Harris stated to WDSU on Saturday at a speech at the Essence Festival of Culture in New Orleans that reducing gas prices is “probably” the Biden administration’s top objective.

The President and our administration likely view lowering the cost of living and gas prices as their top objective, according to Harris.

At a NATO summit this week in Madrid, Biden stated that because of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Americans will have to put up with high gas prices for “as long as it takes.”

On Fox Business Network’s “Mornings with Maria” after those statements, New York Republican Congressman Andrew Garbarino criticized the president for seeking to attribute the rise in gas prices to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

Additionally, Garbarino stated that in November 2020, gas prices were approximately 43 and that a barrel of oil cost $43.

And it was now $87, one month before Putin invaded Ukraine. So, after just one year of his presidency, it had already doubled.

The congressman continued by labeling Biden’s justifications “a joke.”

According to Brian Deese, economic adviser to Vice President Joe Biden, Americans should “stand firm” and continue to pay record-breaking gas prices because the “future of the liberal world order” is more crucial.

The director of the National Economic Council was asked on CNN on Thursday, “What do you say to those families that say, “Listen, we can’t afford to pay $4.85 a gallon for months, if not years?”

What you heard today from the president was a concise explanation of the risks. We must remain steadfast because this is about the future of the Liberal World Order, he retorted.

In addition, Deese said, “You have a president and an administration that is going to do everything in its power to blunt those price increases and bring those prices down.”