US President Joe Biden, whom high inflation in the United States puts in a very bad electoral position, said Thursday that he will make decisions on the price of gasoline “next week.”
His administration has already been pumping, for months, from US strategic oil reserves, hoping to contain prices at the pump. The latter had fallen this summer, offering renewed popularity to the president and the Democratic party. But gasoline prices are rising in the United States, following a decision last week by the world’s top crude exporters, united within OPEC+, to cut supply.
Inflation remains above 8%
About a month before the midterm legislative elections, decisive for the continuation of the presidency of Joe Biden, things are particularly bad for the American president. Traveling to Los Angeles to praise the major infrastructure programs launched by his initiative, he returned Thursday to the release of statistics showing inflation remains firmly anchored above 8% in the United States.
Senate retention but House loss
Joe Biden took the opportunity to joke about the many elected Republicans who voted against his major infrastructure spending, calling them “communists,” arguably one of the most pejorative labels in American political vocabulary. “Now they are quietly and privately sending letters to my administration asking for money” to fund projects in their constituencies, the president said, joking: “I am surprised to see so many communists among Republican parliamentarians.”
The polls predict for the moment that the Democratic Party will maintain its scant control of the Senate after the November 8 elections, but will lose control of the House of Representatives.
Source: BFM TV
