CNN anchor Wolf Blitzer questioned the Biden administration’s efforts to blame the hike in gas prices on Russian President Vladimir Putin.
On CNN, Lee continued to state that COVID, the supply chain crisis, worker shortages, and other factors have contributed to inflation.
"As we know very well, even well before the Russian’ invasion began, there have been issues with inflation, gas prices already going up because of the pandemic, because of some of the issues that we saw related to COVID, like worker shortages, supply chain issues, we’ve seen some of the ports at our countries becoming blocked and exacerbating all of those issues," Lee said.
She added,"With inflation, with this invasion of Ukraine, and with spring break and summer driving coming up, it’s going to be a very painful couple of months for Americans at the pump." Get all the stories you need-to-know from the most powerful name in news delivered first thing every morning to your inbox
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