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On March 6, 2024, exactly four years to the day after Trump’s CDC trip, House Republican Conference Chair Elise Stefanik spoke at a Capitol Hill press conference and struck a nostalgic note.
Stefanik: Are you better off today than you were four years ago? The answer is a resounding no pic.twitter.com/53SC8pyUIs
— Acyn (@Acyn) March 6, 2024
I’m mindful of the fact that Stefanik, a Trump sycophant, is auditioning for the role of her party’s vice presidential nominee, which has led her to make some deeply unfortunate comments of late.
But the idea that conditions in the United States got worse after Trump left the White House is demonstrably ridiculous.
As regular readers know, the nation’s unemployment rate, for example, has dramatically improved, and for the first time in over a half-century, Americans have seen a jobless rate below 4% for two years. Economic growth has also improved, and the major stock market indexes have reached all-time highs.
When Trump left office, the pandemic was claiming the lives of thousands of Americans per day, and vaccines were not widely available to the public. Or put another way, the Covid crisis has gotten better under Biden, too.
The nation’s uninsured rate got better under Biden. The supply-chain challenges got better under Biden. The cost of many prescription drugs got better under Biden. Infrastructure investments got better under Biden. The budget deficit got better under Biden. Crime rates got better under Biden. Domestic manufacturing got better under Biden. The United States’ global standing soared after Biden replaced Trump in the White House.
These aren’t opinions. They’re just what happened.
Source: Stefanik picks the wrong fight, asks whether we were better off in 2020