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Doocy Quizzes Psaki On Spiking Gas Prices: ‘Are You Guys Just Going To Start Blaming Putin For Everything?’

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On Thursday, Fox News Peter Doocy asked White House press secretary Jen Psaki what her administration believes are the reasons for current inflation and rising gas prices – and it got a little testy.

The exchange took place during the White House’s daily press briefing.

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Doocy: ‘Are you guys just going to start blaming Putin for everything until the midterms?’

Doocy asked Psaki how long inflation the administration once called “temporary” would last.

Psaki replied, “I think what we do, is we rely on the assessments of the Federal Reserve and of outside economic analysts who give an assessment of how long it will last.”

“The expectations and their assessment at this point continues to be that it will moderate by the end of the year,” she added.

Psaki said it was inevitable Russia’s invasion of Ukraine would have an “impact.”

“There’s also no question that when a foreign dictator invades a foreign country, and when that foreign dictator is the head of a country that is the third largest supplier of oil in the world, that that is going to have an impact, and it is,” the press secretary explained.

“So, to that point,” Doocy responded, “inflation goes up today. The president’s statement blames the ‘Putin price hike,’ are you guys just going to start blaming Putin for everything until the midterms?”

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Before Russia invaded Ukraine, The Biden Administration Accused Inflation of the COVID-19 Pandemic

Doocy asked Team Biden to explain why they didn’t say Putin caused inflation prior to the invasion and was instead told it was because of the pandemic.

“The last two years there was a global pandemic,” Psaki responded. “Everyone who is a global economist have all agreed that has been the biggest contributor, to date, of inflation, because of the impact on the supply chain.”

“Obviously global events impact the economy — the global economy — as well as global inflation,” she said. “And the price hikes, as a result, that have escalated over the course of time of President Putin’s further invasion … are of course having an impact.”