US families should suffer high gas prices to protect 'the liberal world order', Biden's economic advisor Brian Deese says when asked what he would say to Americans who can't afford $4.85 a gallon

The Daily Mail ^ | 01 Jul 2022 | Morgan Phillips

[MinorityRepublican]

Biden economic advisor Brian Deese said that Americans should 'stand firm' on paying record-high gas prices because the 'future of the liberal world order' is more important.

'What do you say to those families that say, 'listen, we can't afford to pay $4.85 a gallon for months, if not years?' the director of the National Economic Council was asked on CNN Thursday.

What you heard from the president today was a clear articulation of the stakes. This is about the future of the Liberal World Order and we have to stand firm,' he replied.

Deese added: 'At the same time, what I would say to that family and Americans across the country is you have a president and an administration that is going to do everything in its power to blunt those price increases and bring those prices down.'

The U.S. cut off all Russian gas after Vladimir Putin invaded Ukraine, and the European Union followed suit, driving up gas and energy prices the world over.

After breaching $5 a gallon for the first time ever, gas prices have fallen back to an average of $4.84 as of Friday.

Inflation has also reached a 40-year high at 8.6 percent with prices surging while the Ukraine war has also compounded food shortages and made grocery shopping more expensive.

Conservative critics have leaped on the Biden administration for using the term 'world order.'

'The Liberal World Order?! These people are nuts!' Rep. Byron Donalds, R-Fla., wrote on Twitter.

[metmom]

Don’t expect me to pay for your idea of what the world should be like.

You want it, YOU pay for it and leave the rest of us out of it.

I didn’t ask you to inflict your world view on me.

[CottonBall]

Thanks TIK