Karine Jean-Pierre:
The American people have gone through a lot in these four years. And so we understand that it’s going to take a little bit of time for them, for folks to see the impact that this administration has had.
But there are facts, there’s data out there to show that the work that this president has done, building an economy from the bottom up, middle out, has been — has mattered. Making sure no communities are left behind has mattered, more than 60 million jobs created. Let’s not forget, when he stepped in, thousands of people, more than 3,000 people were dying a day from COVID, from COVID.
And he had to turn that around very, very quickly. And I will say this one last thing. The historic pieces of legislation that he was able to get through, whether it’s CHIPS and Science ACT, bipartisan Infrastructure Act, the PACT Act, the bipartisan, like I said, Infrastructure Act, Inflation Reduction Act, all of those things, and you look at the provision, for example, in Inflation Reduction Act, they are popular.
Insulin capped at 35 bucks, lowering prescription drugs, beating big pharma, so that Medicare could really negotiate on lowering those prescription drug prices, all of those things are popular. And so he took actions that Americans really wanted. And we do believe it’s going to take some time for Americans to see the full breadth of what this president has been able to do.
But, right now, our focus with five days left is to try and continue to run through the tape. What else can we do to make Americans’ lives better?
