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Prices keep rising. And the clock keeps ticking.
So the White House has started to change up its messaging on inflation, even though President Joe Biden has limited tools at his disposal to battle the crisis. The president stepped up efforts to draw contrasts with Republicans, unleashing a series of new attack lines Tuesday in a speech delivered amid a flurry of sobering headlines on rising costs and interest rates.
āAmerica still has a choice to make. A choice between a government by the few, for the few,ā Biden said at an AFL-CIO union convention in Philadelphia. āOr a government for all of us ā a democracy for all of us, an economy where all of us have a fair shot.ā
But with the midterms rapidly approaching, votersā patience appears likely to run out ā and the president and party in power stand poised to pay the political price.