The Hill’s tweet.
Inflation had recently accelerated “at its fastest pace since 2008 last month with the Consumer Price Index spiking 4.2% from a year ago, compared to the Dow Jones estimate for a 3.6% increase,” according to CNBC. In addition, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) recently reported that the U.S. economy added an embarrassing 266,000 jobs in April. The report completely destroyed the media hype about the jobs growth under Biden. The media’s glowing job predictions were off by anywhere between 734,000 jobs and 1,734,000 jobs.
But
Elis
chose to swat the negative data away and instead characterized the terrible jobs numbers as “the potential quirks of an economy reawakening from a pandemic-induced slumber.”