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JEAN-PIERRE: “The President has been working on this for months and we have to understand how we also got here. We got here with the increase of gas prices and food prices because of Mr. Putin’s war in Ukraine. And what we — and how in particular with food and gas and how his unprecedented brutal war on Ukraine has caused prices to go up. And so, look, the President is going to be focused. We have a strong economy, we are going to, you know, as we’re talking about inflation, our plan right now is to do that transition from that, the growth that we’ve seen in the economy, to a more stable and steady growth. And we’ve seen that in the numbers last week with the jobs numbers and we’re going to continue to focus on that, give the Federal Reserve its opportunity, its space to deal with inflation. They have the best monetary policy to do that. But again, this is what the President is going to be focused on. We’re not going to pay attention to polls. That’s not what we’re going to do here. What we’re going to focus on is delivering for the American people.”