President Joe Biden’s reaction to a resurfaced video of Representative Lauren Boebert’s tirade about the Inflation Reduction Act has made its way online, with the video being viewed over 1 million times.
Biden previously took aim at Boebert, a Colorado Republican, on Wednesday when he talked about his legislative accomplishments during a visit to her congressional district. Biden traveled to Pueblo, Colorado, to visit the CS Wind factory—said to be the world’s largest wind turbine tower manufacturing plant that recently announced an expansion that the White House said was a direct result of the Inflation Reduction Act, a signature part of the president’s economic agenda. However, since Biden’s arrival, Boebert has also taken aim at criticizing him over his economic policies like the Inflation Reduction Act, which she voted against.
While speaking with co-founder of MeidasTouch Ben Meiselas on Wednesday, Meiselas showed Biden a video of Boebert’s tirade on the House floor from August 2022 against the Inflation Reduction Act, in which she says in part, “This is just another con game by the Democrats.”
In response, Biden seemingly laughs at the video, later saying, “If it weren’t so important, it would be humorous. The only massive failure occurs in her thinking. The idea that in her own district we’ve created so many good paying jobs. And by the way it’s generating economic growth across the board.”
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The president added: “I hope she comes back here and tells the people in this factory…that this is a massive failure. It’s her district. Invite her to come back…tell the folks back home that all we’ve done to generate economic growth is not worth it,” Biden added.
In a statement on Wednesday, Boebert claimed that families in her district are “being crushed by so-called ‘Bidenomics.'”
“On his watch, credit card debt, inflation, groceries, and gas prices have all reached record highs. These high prices are squeezing working class Coloradans and rural America,” she said. “Rather than cutting wasteful federal spending and unleashing American energy production, Joe Biden continues to pander to radical extremists, lock up more land, and spend his time focused on campaign stunts and vacations rather than doing the job he was elected to do.”
Newsweek has reached out to Boebert and Biden via email for comment.
Boebert Fires Back at Biden
On Friday, Biden called out the congresswoman in a post to X, formerly Twitter, writing, “Congresswoman Lauren Boebert, one of the leaders of the extreme MAGA movement, called the Inflation Reduction Act a ‘massive failure.’ Tell that to the 850 Coloradans who are getting new jobs in her district thanks to this law.”
In response, Boebert took aim at Biden writing in an X post, “You’ve created more jobs for China than you ever will for the United States. Your entire Residency has been one big failure and the Inflation Expansion Act is a major part of that failure. America deserves a true all-of-the-above energy and gas prices strategy. Not massive subsidies for one industry at that expense of the other while you are also attacking it. You should focus on your response to the American people for collecting 10% of laundered money, Big Guy.”
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