Wall Street Journal: “Senior White House advisers have expressed frustration in recent weeks with their messaging around inflation… Some officials have said they should publicly accept that the administration’s stimulus contributed to higher prices while arguing that such steps were worthwhile, while others have been opposed to making such concessions.”
“Political advisers have trotted out different inflation counterattacks, for example, by linking higher prices to corporate greed or blaming them on Russian President Vladimir Putin. But economic advisers haven’t eagerly embraced those lines.”
A person in touch with White House economists tells the Washington Post: “It seems like they’ve given up doing anything and have settled into figuring out what the best thing to say is. There’s almost more debate about the right narrative than the right policy stance.”
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