Jean-Pierre: No, We Are Not Misleading Americans on Inflation, Russia’s War Increased Inflation

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JEAN-PIERRE: "So, when the president took office — and you know this — there was a pandemic, it was closing down businesses, closing down schools, and so it was drastically disrupting the supply chain. Let’s not forget about that. And so that’s what was going on, and that caused inflation around the world to increase. We know that. And then further increasing inflation was the Russia’s war, Russia's war in Ukraine. And in fact, many other countries are even worse off because of that of, because of what we've seen with Russian' war. So the president took historic action to deal with the disruption of the supply chain. Let’s not forget what he did with the Strategic Petroleum Reserve. And so, we have made progress in lowering costs, we made progress in dealing with inflation. But that’s what was happening when we walked in, the pandemic, the disruption of the supply chain. All of these things were happening."