Oh look, another fine piece of journalism from the NY Post.
Transcript:
Question: The, the vice president um released a political ad this morning where she mentioned that price gouging is a problem in the United States when it comes to grocery prices. And I wanted to see if there's anything that the Biden Harris administration is doing to address price gouging if there are targets in mind and the activity that the administration has on this issue.
Press Secretary: So look, obviously, we have been very much an administration has focused on lowering cost. That is something that we continue to do as one of the most recent events that the president and the vice president had was indeed talking about how to lower prescription drugs. And so that is something that you know that we've done over the past couple of years as it relates to the campaign, as it relates to the ad, I've got to be mindful just I have to say this at the top Paris campaign can speak specifically to, to the ad, but we have made some progress in lowering prices as I just mentioned about the Medicaid, the Medicare, what we've been able to do with beating back farmer and lowering some prices there when it comes to health care and they have taken on price gouging. This is something that we have done here in this administration, including partnering with state attorneys generals to crack down on anti competitive behavior in grocery and agriculture markets. That is something that we have done in the past 3.5 years in this administration. And so obviously, it's something that we have focused on what we want to do. And this is an issue that Americans care about the economy. We want to continue to lower costs for Americans. We want to make sure that big corporations and billionaires pay their fair share and we want to make sure that we build an economy that works for all from the bottom up, middle out. This is all connected, all connected and what the president and this vice president has tried to do over the 3.5 years has to believe that price gouging despite the efforts that you describe that price gouging continues with grocery prices. Oh, yes, we've talked to of this.
--> We have seen now to be clear, we have seen grocery prices come down
over the past year or more. And so that is important and a lot of that is the work that's been done from this administration. The president has called out companies, right, who we know were doing just that raising the cost and, and, and, but what we believe is that we want to make sure that the Americans are not paid for suckers. You've heard the president say this, they are not played for suckers and that we're going to continue to do everything that we can to protect them. And so again, we've done work on dealing with price gouging, working directly with state State Attorney Generals to crack down on certain certain actions that we have seen and we'll continue to do that.
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