‘I just paid $4.68 a gallon’: Markwayne Mullin criticizes Biden administration for ignoring inflation

Republican Sen. Markwayne Mullin of Oklahoma criticized the Biden administration for ignoring inflation, citing the price he paid to fill his truck.

Karine Jean-Pierre, White House press secretary reclaimed during a Monday news conference that Thanksgiving dinner would be one of the “cheapest ever,” using a food menu, while experts told the Daily Caller News Foundation that a typical Thanksgiving dinner is expected of Thanks this year be the more expensive in History. The consumer price index pink 3.2% in October, according According to data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, while the national average price of a gallon of gasoline was $3,308, according to AAA. (RELATED: ‘Like a 12-Year-Old’: CNN Anchor Confronts Union Boss Who Was Challenged to Fight by GOP Senator)

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“I just filled up my truck, I drive a power diesel F-250 and I paid $4.68 a gallon and that’s in Oklahoma,” Mullin told “Kudlow” guest host David Asman. “Telling me that inflation is not yet available indicates how disconnected the White House and the Biden administration and Biden himself are. “We understand that today it still costs the average American $600 a month more under Biden than under Trump.”

“So it’s just more propaganda, essentially coming out of the White House, saying ‘Hey, don’t look here.’ Everything’s fine. Don’t believe what your pocketbook tells you,’” Mullin added.

According to AAA, the average price of a gallon of diesel in Oklahoma It is $3,977.

President Joe Biden canceled Alaska oil leases granted at the end of the Trump administration in September. according to CBS, while proposing new regulations to limit energy production. Economics and energy experts have criticized Biden hostility to the production of fossil fuels, which some say has caused an increase in energy prices.

Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell said inflation would be transitory during August 2021 speech in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, then accepted in September 2021 that inflation ended up lasting longer than “expected.”

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen accepted was wrong to underestimate the risk of inflation during an appearance on CNN in June 2022.

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