Senate Democrat Tells Biden to Stop Blaming Putin for Inflation

The economy continued to flounder under Biden's leadership in March, with reports released in the last ten days showing the job market still hasn't bounced back to pre-pandemic levels, consumer inflation hitting a new 40-year high, and producer prices hitting another record high. After March's data release, as with most others that have come in the last 15 months since Biden took office, the White House is refusing blame. 

The Biden administration has blamed almost everything and everyone *but* the team in the West Wing. Now, the White House's attempts to avoid responsibility for the consequences of its policies have gotten too much even for Senate Democrat Joe Manchin or West Virginia. 

"It is a disservice to the American people to act as if inflation is a new phenomenon," Manchin said in a statement amid the week's release of more bad economic news and the accompanying blame-shifting from the White House. "Instead of acting boldly, our elected leaders and the Federal Reserve continue to respond with half-measures and rhetorical failures searching for where to lay the blame," he added. "The American people deserve the truth about why record inflation is happening and what must be done to control it," said Manchin.