White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt tore into CNN’s Kaitlan Collins during a Thursday briefing over her network’s failure to press former President Joe Biden about poor economic indicators while he was in office.
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“With respect to affordability, every economic metric, Kaitlan, and I wish you would report more on it, does in fact show that the economy is getting better and brighter than where it was under the previous administration,” Leavitt shot back when pressed by Collins about President Trump’s economy.
“I will repeat, inflation as measured by the overall CPI has slowed to an average 2.5% pace. Real wages are increasing roughly $1,200 for the average worker. Gas pric

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