总统乔·拜登在周四被称为美联储的降息前一天，美联储向美国人发出了通胀正在降温的“重要信号”，但他警告说，这“并不意味着改善经济的工作已经完成”。
拜登周四在华盛顿特区的经济俱乐部发表讲话时说，“昨天对这个国家来说是重要的一天。”
拜登说:“在美联储开始加息两年半后，它宣布开始降息。”。“我认为这对消费者来说是个好消息，这意味着买房、买车等更多东西的成本将会下降。在我看来，这对整体经济来说是个好消息。”
总统在讲话中讨论了自新冠肺炎疫情以来美国取得的进展，包括供应链问题、食品和商品的高成本以及婴儿配方奶粉短缺。他还检查了他的所有立法成就，如美国救援计划，通货膨胀削减法案，芯片和科学法案和两党基础设施法。
“众所周知，美国的通货膨胀率达到了9.1%。今天，这一比例更接近2%。“这并不意味着我们的工作已经完成。远非如此。远非如此，没有人应该困惑我为什么在这里。我不是来庆祝胜利的。我不是来说，“干得好。”我在这里不是要说‘我们没有更多的工作要做’。我们确实有更多的工作要做。"
白宫办公厅主任杰夫·兹恩茨(Jeff Zients)在一次电话会议上对记者说，总统和副总统卡玛拉·哈里斯仍在展望尚未完成的工作，指出儿童保育和住房成本是最大的两个领域。
一名白宫官员在电话中被问及，政府是否担心今天降息后失业率上升，但这位官员没有理会这一担忧，称美联储今天的数据显示“劳动力市场保持稳定”，并补充说失业率“仍然是50年来任何政府的平均最低水平。”
一名记者还问，中东日益加剧的紧张局势是否会成为抗击通胀上升的一个挫折。不同的白宫官员表示，这是“我们一贯监测的地缘政治风险之一。”
“但我们的评估是，你知道，现在经济处于健康的状态，虽然我们继续监测这些风险，但这些风险不会对前景构成重大风险，”这位白宫官员补充说。
在周四的讲话中，拜登还虚假地声称，他“自从我成为总统以来，从未与美联储主席说过话。”他实际上在2022年5月在椭圆形办公室会见了杰罗姆·鲍威尔。
Biden calls rate cut 'an important day for the country'
PresidentJoe Bidenon Thursday called theFederal Reserve's rate cutthe day before an “important signal” from the Fed to Americans that inflation is cooling, but he cautioned that it “doesn’t mean the work is done” to improve the economy.
In remarks on Thursday at the Economic Club of Washington, D.C., Biden said, “Yesterday was an important day for the country.”
“Two and a half years after the Federal Reserve began raising interest rates, it announced that it began lowering interest rates," Biden said. "I think it's good news for consumers, and that means the cost of buying a home, a car, and so much more would be going down. And it's good news in my view, for the overall economy.”
The president in his remarks discussed how far the U.S. has come since the COVID-19 pandemic, including supply chain issues, high costs of food and goods, and baby formula shortages. He also checked through all of his legislative achievements such as the American Rescue Plan, Inflation Reduction Act, Chips and Science Act and the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law.
“At its peak, as you all know, inflation was 9.1% in the United States. Today it’s much closer to 2%," Biden said. "It doesn't mean our work is done. Far from it. Far from it, no one should confused why I'm here. I'm not here to take a victory lap. I'm not here to say, ‘A job well done.’ I'm not here to say ‘We don't have a hell of a lot more work to do.’ We do have more work to do.”
White House Chief of Staff Jeff Zients told reporters on a call previewing Biden's remarks that president and Vice President Kamala Harris are still looking ahead to the work that is not finished, pointing to the cost of child care and housing as two of the biggest areas.
One White House official on the call was asked about whether the administration was concerned about rising unemployment in response to today's rate cut, but the official brushed off the concern, saying that the Fed's data today shows "the labor market remaining solid," and adding that unemployment has "remained the lowest on average of any administration in 50 years."
A reporter also asked whether rising tensions in the Middle East could be a setback in the fight against rising inflation. The different White House official said that it is one of the "geopolitical risks that we consistently monitor."
"But our assessment, you know, right now is that the economy is in a healthy place, and that the kind of range of risks, while we continue to monitor them are do not pose a significant risk to the to the outlook," the White House official added.
In his remarks Thursday, Biden also falsely claimed that he has “never once spoken to the chairman of the Fed since I became president.” He actually met with Jerome Powell in the Oval Office in May 2022.
