WASHINGTON – White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said Wednesday that January’s inflation numbers show the Biden administration left “a mess” for the Trump administration to handle.
Leavitt spoke during a press briefing in the afternoon after figures from the Department of Labor showed the consumer price index (CPI) increased much higher than expected. It climbed 0.5 percent from December into January, and consumer prices are up three percent compared to January 2024.
“On the inflation point, we did receive those numbers, and they were worse than expected, which tells us that the Biden administration indeed left us with a mess to deal with,” Leavitt said.
“It’s far worse than I think anybody anticipated because, unfortunately, the previous administration was not transparent in where the economy truly was,” she added.
She then called out the White House…
