President Biden joked Friday that House Republicans threatening to impeach him for alleged corruption involving his son Hunter’s foreign business dealings may as well add lowering inflation to the charges.
“Earlier this week, the Washington Post suggested Republicans may have to find something else to criticize me for now that inflation is coming down,” Biden said during an economic speech in Maine.
“Maybe they’ll decide to impeach me because it’s coming down,” he joked.
“I don’t know, I’d love that one. But anyway, that’s another story,” he added, in his first oral response to House Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s threat this week to launch an impeachment inquiry into Biden’s role in his family’s dealings in countries including China and Ukraine.
Annual inflation fell to 3% last month after peaking at 9.1% one year prior. Although Biden says he deserves credit for the reduction, his critics accuse him of causing the surge in inflation through large spending bills in his first two years in office.
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