U.S. President Joe Biden’s administration is not serving U.S. economic, energy or national security when it issues unrealistic statements and assessments of what each requires.
While every administration exaggerates to some extent, misleading claims have become more problematic in today’s changing policymaking environment.
I am not talking about embarrassing misjudgments, like the administration’s costly belief that rising inflation was “transitory.” Political misinformation falls along a spectrum, from the Biden administration repeatedly defending ridiculous statements (the Afghan withdrawal was a success) and shifting blame (expensive gas is due to “Putin’s price hike”) to his predecessors Donald Trump cherry-picking pandemic data and Bill Clinton relying on semantic obfuscation.