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The White House wasted no time pushing back when Rep. Alexandria Ocasio‑Cortez tried to turn tariffs into a gotcha moment, dispatching senior deputy press secretary Kush Desai onto Fox News Live to set the record straight and highlight the real economic picture Americans are living. Desai used the January inflation numbers to argue that the administration’s policies are working and to push back on the predictable left‑wing panic that likes to weaponize every trade move.
Friday’s Consumer Price Index showed inflation cooling to just 2.4 percent year‑over‑year in January, with core CPI at 2.5 percent — the lowest core reading since March 2021 — a concrete improvement that ordinary families feel in their wallets. These are not abstract talking points; they are the same metrics that Democrats once promised they could control but spectacularly failed to manage.
The White House also touted tangible wage gains, saying real wages for private‑sector workers rose by roughly $1,400 in President Trump’s first year back in office, a rebound from the erosion of purchasing power under the previous administration. Kush Desai pointed to cooling housing inflation and falling prescription drug costs as signs that the tax, regulatory, and trade agenda is restoring affordability for working Americans.
Ocasio‑Cortez’s grabby social media post — “Remember: WE pay the tariffs, not Colombia” — was the usual performative virtue signaling that treats complex economics like a soundbite. The White House, and several economic analyses, have pushed back: targeted tariffs used as leverage in foreign negotiations have not driven the inflation surge the left blames on American policy, and the simplistic claim that consumers always shoulder the burden ignores how global markets and supply chains actually react.
Patriots know there is a difference between political grandstanding and strategic statecraft. Tariffs, when used smartly, are a bargaining chip to protect American workers, rebuild manufacturing, and extract fair deals — not an ideological weapon meant to punish consumers. Democrats and their celebrity spokespeople would do the country a favor if they stopped reflexively denouncing any move that puts American interests first.
If anything, the January data should harden the conviction of every hardworking American that putting economic strength and sovereignty back on the table is the right path forward. Voters will remember who talked down the economy and who returned real wage growth and lower price pressures to the country; the choice between bold leadership and performative lecturing could not be clearer.
