Sounds like at least the senate side, the folks are ok with the way the economy is going. john: counting on powell to see if he can engineer a soft landing on the economy without crashing the whole thing into the ground. fingers crossed he can do it. gillian: better him than us, john. john: exactly. john roberts. martha: thanks. good afternoon. i m martha maccallum at fox news head quarters in new york. right now on the story, jen psaki says that president biden is having a good time with his new line of attack against republicans on inflation. this phrase. let me tell you about this ultra maga agenda. the ultra maga agenda. under my predecessor, the great maga king, the deficit increased every year he was president.
This bizarre remark about the kick ultra-maga by due at the end of the month. the republicans don t seem to think so. they their plans made working families going to make working families pull report to you don t you don t have to take my word for it. they have made their intentions perfectly clear. •-middle-dot rick scott of wisconsin, delete it laid it all out with a plan, the ultra ultra-maga agenda. sean: you mean the one that gave us secure borders, let s see. trade deals, free conveyor for the first time with all of our trading partners all over the world. let s see. record low unemployment for every demographic group. the lowest gas prices we have seen in decades big. now we have inflation at a 40 year high under biden.
Take a look. president biden: i agree with what chairman powell said last week to number one threat is the in that strength that we feel is inflation. look, i know you got to be frustrated. i know. i can taste it. you take any responsibility? president biden: i think our policies help not hurt but think about what they say. the vast majority of the economists think that this is going to be a real tough problem to solve. but it is not because of spending. sean: i m screaming at the tv. how have they helped, joe? since joe has clearly lost any ability to communicate because of the cognitive the contact allow me to try to translate for him. there s no plan to curb inflation. by the way, it is not transitory either. there s no plan to deliver gas prices. there s no plan to spur on
Saying these are this ultra maga agenda, the phrase he s been using, one the white house says he personally coined. it s really president biden trying to put the focus back on republicans here. of course, the white house is will aware voters often hold the person in office accountable for things like inflation. you saw president biden today pointing to the federal reserve, those rises in interest rates they re trying to use to tamp down inflation. but of course, there are big questions about what he s going to do. will he remove the trump era tariffs on some chinese goods. that could potentially alleviate some of the prices consumers are pa paying. will they create a national gas holiday, tax holiday, something like that? those are the things that are under consideration right now for this white house. but of course, wolf, it remains to be seen what they can change in the next six months before the midterm elections. political ramifications are enormous right now. very, very sensitiv
West virginia, always a danger, particularly as votes are cast as we speak. you put up the slide showing how much trump s margin of victory was on election night. this is a trump state, not necessarily a conservative state. you still have a democratic senator there, and you have a man that is a republican governor but ran as a democrat when he won. you have also got a dire need for infrastructure investment. so part of the question is actually from my perspective, it s interesting this is a close race given the fact that you have so much need there, and a candidate that has long history in the state. because of the personality that you guys were all talking about. let s turn to the president, the current president. joe biden talking today about inflation and about what he said were his plans to tackle inflation. what we heard for the most part was the term ultra maga agenda. take a listen. the fact is congressional republicans, not all of them, but the maga republicans, are countin