


Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ campaign tore into President Biden’s recent pitch to voters on the economy, grading a memo on “Bidenomics” with an “F.”
DeSantis’s team picked apart a memo written by White House advisers Anita Dunn and Mike Donilon that detailed the president’s economic pitch to voters in a counter-memo exclusively obtained by The New York Post.
“Joe Biden’s lies about the economy are a slap in the face to working families across the country struggling to get by,” DeSantis campaign spokesman Andrew Romeo said in a statement.
The memo from Dunn and Donilon previewed Biden’s economic-centric speech at the Old Post Office in Chicago Wednesday and touted his legislative accomplishments on the economy.
Similar to Biden in his speech, the memo decried “failed trickle-down policies” and argued that his legislative successes helped usher in “lower costs for working families.”
“‘Pain and suffering’ for working families,” the DeSantis team shot back in the counter-memo.
Perhaps the biggest critique of the Bidenomics memo was the section where the president’s team claimed the US had the “strongest recovery of any major country in the world.”
DeSantis’s camp pointed to unbridled inflation. Biden’s economic team has stressed that other nations around the world are similarly battered with inflation pressures.
DeSantis’s campaign also pointed to a Fox News poll from May, were 83% of respondents said the economy was in poor or fair shape.
“No one believes the political spin coming from the White House, and Americans are in desperate need of relief. As president, Ron DeSantis will put an end to Bidenflation once and for all and lead our Great American Comeback,” Romeo added.
“BS, 2/3 of Americans disapprove of Biden’s handling of the economy,” the DeSantis team’s grading concluded.
Meanwhile, Biden contended that his administration has made progress on the economy, citing low levels of unemployment.
“I’m not here to declare victory on the economy but we have a plan [that is] turning things around incredibly quickly,” Biden said in Chicago Wednesday. “We have more work to do.”
He outlined three tenets to better the financial picture of everyday Americans: “making smart investments in America,” “educating and empowering American workers” and “promoting competition.”
The New York Post contacted a White House spokesperson for comment.