Biden’s Plan B on Inflation: Turn It Against Trump

Price pressures aren’t easing fast enough to guarantee the interest-rate cuts the president hoped to see by November, so his message is evolving. Read More

Biden has a story to tell about the economy. Inflation gets in the way.

Voters repeatedly point to higher prices as a source of their unhappiness, making it hard for President Biden to convince people that the economy is strong ... Read More

Biden claims inflation was 'skyrocketing' when he took office, despite data showing opposite

President Biden claimed Wednesday that inflation was "skyrocketing" when he took office despite federal data showing that consumer prices remained low at the time. Read More

A Hot Inflation Report Is a Blow to President Biden

Mr. Biden has been banking on cooling inflation — and ensuing rate cuts — to lift his re-election prospects. The president and his aides have publicly cheered the retreat of annual inflation rates ... Read More

Why Inflation Is Biden’s Most Stubborn Political Problem

Inflation has emerged as the most intractable domestic policy issue facing President Biden less than seven months before the election—but there isn’t a whole lot the White House can do to fix it.The ... Read More

Biden's COVID-19 spending comes back to bite as inflation remains high: economists

Economic experts are blaming President Biden's massive stimulus spending package for the continued rate of inflation, even as the White House points to other factors. Read More

Ex-Biden chief of staff: President is ‘out there too much talking about bridges’

Former White House chief of staff Ron Klain on Tuesday reportedly bemoaned that President Biden is spending too much time talking about infrastructure projects like bridges as Americans deal with ... Read More

White House on Klain’s critique: We’re doing what he said!

The Biden White House, Klain included, heard these warnings, too, in the run-up to the 2022 midterms. And then Democrats maintained control of the Senate while barely losing the House largely by ... Read More

Biden hits Trump on the economy in Pennsylvania as former president attends hush money trial

President Biden took aim at former President Trump as his likely November opponent sat in a courthouse in New York City Tuesday, bashing the former president’s economic record and proposals ... Read More

In Pennsylvania, Biden deflects culpability for high inflation, courts working class in battleground

President Biden jetted across the must-win battleground of Pennsylvania this week to shore up support and take on one of his biggest liabilities: the economy. Read More

Trump rips Biden on key issue impacting voters after damaging report: ‘Totally lost control’

An unexpected bump up in inflation is giving former President Trump more ammunition to fire at President Biden as the two face off in their 2024 election rematch. Read More

Yes, Joe Biden Can Win the Working-Class Vote

Joe Biden’s support among working-class voters of all races has fallen alarmingly. Here are seven ways he and his party can reverse the slide. Read More