During an interview on Fox Business, host Neil Cavuto grilled Jared Bernstein, and told him directly "you're lying," and "just as bad" as Biden when he tried to dodge the matter.

After Biden took office inflation surged to rates unseen since the early 1980s, peaking at an annual rate of 9.1 percent in June 2022, a full 17 months after he became president.

Yet, he keeps claiming it was ALREADY at 9 percent and that he inherited a weakened economy from Trump.

"Jared, why does he keep saying that?" Cavuto asked, following up "You're the head of the Council of Economic Advisers. Do you ever whisper in his ear, 'Mr. President, just to be technical about it, it wasn't at 9% when you assumed office, it was 1.4%. It got as high as 9% in 2022, you brought it down from that, but it was never ever ever 9% when you came into office.' So why does he keep saying it?"

Bernstein responded "Well, first of all, let me point out that in that very quote you played, the president talked about how concerned he was, uh, for households struggling with prices that he consistently—"

"That's not what I asked you. That's not what I asked you," Cavuto interjected, again asking "Why does he keep misrepresenting this?"

"He's making the point, uh, that that factors that caused inflation to climb to 9% were in place when he took office," Bernstein claimed.

Credit to Cavuto, he was having none of it.

"No, that's not what he said! He said it was at 9%… So if I can't trust him with quoting data in real-time, why should I believe what he's talking about now?"