Vice President Kamala Harris stated over the weekend that the inflation crisis, which began shortly after she took office, is not a “partisan issue.”
In an interview with CBS News, Harris suggested she could reduce prices of private sector goods and services through new legislation.
“What do you think you’ll be able to do if you have a divided Congress?” host Norah O’Donnell asked.
“So I will tell you, for most of the issues that I think concern the vast majority of Americans, they’re not partisan issues,” Harris said while citing things like “bringing down the cost of groceries, [and] bringing down the cost of housing.”
“These are not partisan issues,” she said. “Democrats, Republicans, independents deal with these issues equally, and actually don’t think of think of them through the lens of the party with which they’re registered to vote. So that means working across the aisle.”
Kamala's response to the sky-high price of groceries, which have increased by almost 25% since she took office: "These are not partisan issues."
— Trump War Room (@TrumpWarRoom) October 28, 2024
So… why hasn't she done anything about it? pic.twitter.com/GIY6vQ0Vx2
In March 2021, Harris cast the deciding vote in the U.S. Senate to advance the massive $1.9 trillion spending package known as the American Rescue Plan, which was passed without any Republican support in either the House or Senate and signed into law a week later.
The American Rescue Plan triggered the highest inflation rates in the U.S. in over 40 years. According to The Washington Post, prices on a variety of goods began to rise “within days” of the bill becoming law. The following month, inflation rose from 2.6% to 4.2%—the highest in over a decade—and by the next year, monthly inflation rates were exceeding 8%, reaching as high as 9.1% in June 2022.
