Fmr. Biden Economic Adviser: ‘We Certainly Never Thought About Doing Anything that Would Raise Cost’

RUSH EXCERPT:

BERNSTEIN: “Yeah. Look, the governor is the politician here, but let me offer a little free political advice, and I suspect he would agree with it. If you‘re a millionaire, especially if you‘re a billionaire, you should never tell people not to worry about higher prices. All right? That should just be something that‘s kind of etched on everything you you think about. This is we know that the American consumer has been dealing with this this problem, this challenge, these pressures for a while. And when I was in the Biden Administration, we were doing what we could to help cut costs. We can argue about how far we got, but but we certainly never thought about doing anything that would raise costs. And here we‘ve we‘ve talked about they‘re on pause for now, but they‘re on pause for only a month. We‘re talking about tariffs that could raise the price of a vehicle by between 3000 $509,000. You‘re talking about avocados, which still probably will be tariff. That‘s the White House was unclear about that today, adding $0.50 per per item there. The price of gas I‘ve seen estimates could go up $0.20 per gallon. That‘s real money for real people. And if you‘re a millionaire or billionaire and you‘re dismissing that, you‘re you‘re you‘re making a big mistake and frankly, you‘re insulting people.”