White House press secretary Jen Psaki cracked a joke about the supply chain crisis that affects businesses and consumers across the nation. She said it's a tragedy some people may have to wait longer to get to the treadmill until they can reach it again.
The tragedy of the treadmill that s delayed, Psaki sighed during her daily press briefing.
Psaki was asked to address the supply chain disruptions across the country that have left store shelves bare for the crucial holiday shopping season. One reporter asked why President Biden hadn t acted sooner to address the crisis and whether his administration had failed to anticipate the issue.
What was that the truth? The President formed a Task Force at the very beginning of the administration.
And what we know from the multifaceted supply chain issues is that they are global, she continued. Right now we've been focusing on the ports and the issues at the ports, and what leaders will tell you is that they have seen an increase in volume dramatically as it relates to last year 20%, 30% increase in volume. Psaki said part of the administration's work to resolve the supply chain has been providing COVID - 19 vaccines to countries where manufacturing sites have been shut down due to the pandemic. She also said the Administration has been working with state DMVs to expedite their approval of commercial driver's licenses to get more truckers on the road, as well as working with unions to help address the shortages of workers. So I think the important thing to understand here is that there are multiple issues that are impacting the supply chain, she said. And some of that is that as the economy turned back on, more people had expendable income, wages to buy more goods, more people are buying more things. People have started to get more things online than buying in stores. Conservatives criticized Psaki for the treadmill remark. It comes just days after White House chief of staff Stephen Flake faced a backlash for enthusiastically agreeing with a tweet describing the Supply Chain Crisis as high class problems.