[See NewsBusters for more.] MSNBC senior business correspondent and The 11th Hour host Stephanie Ruhle appeared on MSNBC Reports on Friday to absolve President Biden of any blame for high gas prices and to enthusiastically endorse tax increases as the solution.
After Biden gave a speech on the March jobs report, host Joe Fryer asked Ruhle to provide a reality check. After declaring the jobs figure to be “really good,” Ruhle added that the problem is “when you look at wage growth, where you’re seeing wages go up the most, it's higher wage jobs, it’s white collar jobs and the fact of the matter is people with white collar jobs saved up during the pandemic. We might not like to pay more money at the gas tank or the grocery store, but we can afford to and it’s people on the lower end of the economic spectrum that are really struggling here.”