Gaslighting Bonanza: White House Releases Massive Document Detailing Biden 'Economic Achievements'

The White House published a lengthy report on Friday discussing President Joe Biden’s economic accomplishments.

The 58-page “Biden-Harris Economic Blueprint” comes two months after the United States met the rule-of-thumb definition of a recession — two consecutive quarters of negative growth — as the economy shrank at a 1.6% annualized rate in the first quarter and contracted at a 0.6% pace in the second quarter.

The document, however, outlines the administration’s legislative victories and claims that they are responsible for a purported economic recovery.

“President Biden’s agenda has contributed to the strongest and most equitable economic and labor market recovery in modern history, and catalyzed a resurgence in public investment that will help ensure a strong, innovative, clean energy future that is made in America,” the report claimed.

“Together with generational investments in infrastructure, clean energy, and advanced manufacturing, the Biden economic agenda has coupled historic job creation with a long-term strategy to ensure that good jobs of today and tomorrow are created in America.”

The report describes several tenets of the White House’s economic agenda — including greater unionization, government childcare and health programs, and progressive tax policy — before claiming that such policies are responsible for the labor market and other relative bright spots in the economy. Reports nevertheless indicate that the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan worsened labor shortages and contributed to other phenomena behind rising price levels.