Biden officials on the defensive over inflation, blame pandemic - NewsBreak
By Ulises in Business
Updated 2 years ago
With US President Joe Biden's poll numbers slumping under a surge in inflation, top adminstration officials defended his economic policies Sunday and blamed the sharp price rises squarely on the Covid-19 pandemic. In an interview broadcast Sunday on CBS' "Face the Nation," Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen echoed the line that Covid-19 was the main driver of the surge in consumer prices.