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Karoline Leavitt's Midterm Pitch: Give Us More Time To Finish What We Started

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Asked about the midterms by Lara Trump over the weekend, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt reached for the same talking point the administration has been running for months: none of this is Trump's fault. The affordability crisis, she insisted, belongs entirely to Biden and Democrats — Trump merely inherited it and started fixing it his very first day in office. Her prescription for the next two years is more of the same: a Republican Congress to keep "fixing" a crisis that, well into his his second term, is somehow still someone else's doing. Trump, by contrast, she claimed, fixed everything on day one with his trifecta of tax cuts, deregulation, and energy leadership — an economic formula the administration has, in her own words, been "working on every single day for the past year and a half." Which raises the question: was it fixed on day one, or is it still a work in progress eighteen months in? Leavitt didn't seem to notice she couldn't have it both ways. Saying "We ful

First report: Karoline Leavitt admits there is an affordability crisis – but says it’s Joe Biden’s fault — independent.co.uk, 16d