President Joe Biden on Friday joked about getting impeached over easing inflation, with the remark coming as he touted his new “Invent It Here, Make It Here” executive order during an event in Maine.
“Earlier this week, the Washington Post suggested Republicans may have to find something else to criticize me for, now that inflation is coming down,” the president said as he gave a speech at Auburn Manufacturing Inc., a textile company in Auburn, Maine.
“Maybe they’ll decide to impeach me because it’s coming down. I don’t know. I love that one,” he joked.
On Monday, House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, a California Republican, offered his strongest public remarks so far about his party’s probes into the Biden family’s financial affairs, saying they are “going to rise to an impeachment inquiry.”
Meanwhile, Republicans have in fact continued to criticize Biden over increased prices.
“Families in Maine and across the country simply cannot afford Bidenomics,” Republican National Committee Chair Ronna McDaniel said in a statement Friday.
“Real wages are in fact down, costs are indeed up, and voters are counting down the days until they can send Biden back to Delaware for good,” she added.
Biden is continuing to play up his policies for the manufacturing sector and other parts of the U.S. economy as 2024 political campaigns ramp up.
The new executive order, which the president signed on Friday, aims to encourage companies to manufacture their new inventions in the U.S., in particular when those inventions are developed using money from federal agencies.
“This executive order dictates that those agencies have to prioritize domestic manufacturing when it comes time to bring those inventions to market. They can’t go abroad. They have to look here — who can do it here,” Biden said.
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