U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va., is not happy with her grocery bill.
Speaking Thursday during her virtual media briefing, Capito said she went grocery shopping last week and was shocked by the bill.
“I know you see it as well when you go to the grocery store,” Capito said. “Last week I went on a Sunday and I couldn’t believe what I had in my cart cost $69. Normally it would have been a $40 trip, and it was much more than I expected. I think people are seeing it all of the time. I hear it in the grocery store as well.”
Capito said Bidenomics and inflation is to blame for the high grocery store bills people are experiencing.
“So I’m very concerned about the president going around selling Bidenomics when I know that means you spend more to get less,” she said. “There is less savings going around. Credit card rates are going up. Interest rates are going up. And now we are seeing a slowdown in the workforce as well, so I’m deeply concerned.”
She blamed Bidenomics and inflation for the bill.
“The interest rates are killing people in terms of wanting to get into the mortgage business or buying a car,” Capito said. “Interest rates are so high making the payment so out-of-reach certainly for a lot of first-time homebuyers, but also for a lot of other people — hard-working people who are trying to get ahead.”
Capito also touched on a familiar topic during her weekly briefing — border security. She said she recently had an opportunity to question Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas on the issue, and wasn’t happy with his response.
Capito said any supplemental funding bill for Israel and Ukraine also should include funding to secure the southern border.
In addition to 269,000 migrants illegally crossing the border in September, Capito said fentanyl also continues to be smuggled across the border.
“I talk about this probably every week,” Capito said. “But it is concerning. I don’t think the president really cares. He wants an open border. People know it and they come.”
She also was asked about the dismal election results for Republicans Tuesday night, including huge losses in Virginia and Kentucky.
Capito said Republicans can’t afford to lose another election, and must defeat Joe Biden — in particular — in 2024.
“Well I think 2024 is an incredibly important position from the presidential (election), and most particularly I see the impacts of it,” she said. “And I don’t think we can take four more years of that. So the presidency is a very, very critical position.”
Capito said Republicans do need to evaluate what went wrong Tuesday night and learn from it. However, she also pointed to the fact that Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear is very popular in deep-red Kentucky — despite the fact that he is a Democrat. She said other races across Kentucky were overwhelmingly won by Republicans.
The situation was a bit different in Virginia — with Democrats recapturing majority control of the Virginia General Assembly just two years following a Republican red wave in that state.
Democrats made abortion rights a focus in Virginia — even though the issue of abortion wasn’t on the ballot.
“The issue of abortion is a deeply held, contentious issue,” Capito said. “I think we need to say what we are for and what we are against.”