Mike John­son berates Democ­rats after X post ‘mock­ing’ eco­nom­ic strug­gles

A post from the Demo­c­ra­t­ic Ways and Means Com­mit­tee account boast­ed about record online Black Fri­day spend­ing, sug­gest­ing it debunked Repub­li­can con­cerns over the ris­ing cost of liv­ing. John­son took offense to the post, which was delet­ed, call­ing it “dis­grace­ful.”

“Democ­rats delet­ed this tweet. Amer­i­cans have been strug­gling for FOUR YEARS to afford basic neces­si­ties and House Democ­rats are mock­ing them. Talk about your all-time out of touch, dis­grace­ful com­ments,” he said, adding that House Repub­li­cans would “deliv­er for hard­work­ing Amer­i­cans.”

The speak­er includ­ed a screen­shot of the offend­ing post, which quot­ed an arti­cle about shop­pers spend­ing a record $10.8 bil­lion online on Black Fri­day alone.

“And here we were think­ing y’all couldn’t afford eggs!” the Ways and Means Democ­rats wrote.

The post was quick­ly delet­ed.

Accord­ing to analy­sis from Adobe Ana­lyt­ics, this year’s Black Fri­day and Cyber Mon­day saw record num­bers, the Wash­ing­ton Post report­ed. How­ev­er, spend­ing was skewed toward the high­er income brack­ets.

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The out­let report­ed that those with six-fig­ure incomes pri­or­i­tized deals on lux­u­ry items such as Apple Watch­es, sneak­ers, and Dyson Air­wraps, con­tribut­ing heav­i­ly to the record num­bers. Low­er-income earn­ers were much more reserved, pri­or­i­tiz­ing food and essen­tials.

This was reflect­ed in the num­ber of peo­ple who shopped online, which plunged by 7% com­pared to the year pri­or, the low­est the num­ber has been since 2018, accord­ing to the Nation­al Retail Fed­er­a­tion.