American consumers may feel gloomy about the US economy, considering the rampant inflation, but its state is actually better than it was only a year ago, White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre claimed during her regular press briefing on Tuesday.
She was commenting on the recent Wall Street Journal-NORC opinion poll, in which some 83% of people described the state of the American economy as “poor or not so good.” The number reflects general anxiety about gas prices and other necessities, but the country is “in a fundamentally different place compared to when the President took office and compared to this time a year ago,” the spokesperson told journalists.