Hassett says consumer pain over Iran war 'the last of our concerns right now'
Source: The Hill
National Economic Council Director Kevin Hassett on Tuesday said that the economic toll that American consumers are feeling as a result of the U.S.-Israeli conflict with Iran is the last of our concerns right now.
The fact is that the U.S. economy is fundamentally sound and that if it were to be extended, it wouldnt really disrupt the U.S. economy very much at all, Hassett told CNBCs Becky Quick on Squawk Box.
It would hurt consumers and wed have to think about if that continued what we would have to do about that, he continued. But thats the like, really the last of our concerns right now because were very confident that this thing is going ahead of schedule.
Hassetts remarks come amid a spike in prices on goods ranging from oil and gas to fertilizer following the closure of the Strait of Hormuz. The national average for gas prices in the U.S. reached $3.79 as of Tuesday morning, an 11-cent hike from Saturday morning, according to data from AAA.
Read more: https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5787473-kevin-hassett-iran-war-consumer-pain/
maxsolomon
(38,605 posts)Gaslighting ignoramus.
Trotting out economic apparatchiks to comment on the military status of a conflict. It should be Generals, Admirals...
Trueblue1968
(19,227 posts)I hate that man !!!!! Evil POS politicians !!!!! Deport GOPigs to the moon. DonOLD Rump can be king of the moon. That is if the aliens will let him !!!
GenThePerservering
(3,284 posts)WHAT schedule? Trump is begging for anyone else to bail him out of this quagmire.
City Lights
(25,749 posts)what is most, or least concerning to them.
Wipe that smug smirk off your face, Kev.
Hugin
(37,815 posts)Which implies that there's a plan. When clearly there has never been a plan.
Pathetic.
City Lights
(25,749 posts)oasis
(53,604 posts)Hugin
(37,815 posts)Telling him what a good boy he is.
Jilly_in_VA
(14,311 posts)that RepubliKKKans don't give a flying fuck about YOU, the ordinary person in the street or the grocery store.....
LuvLoogie
(8,786 posts)He could be thinking in relation to their upcoming trials at The Hague. Or the Vortex of Depravity that is trump's mental state. Or the Epstein Files.
OldBaldy1701E
(11,029 posts)You don't need it. Neither does anyone else in your wealth-bloated administration.
Since it is the least of our concerns, I mean...
Spoiled, narcissistic, rich people are such assholes.
GiqueCee
(4,048 posts)... he's a Republican, right? I fuckin' knew it!