White House press secretary Jen Psaki was grilled Friday about President Biden’s poor polling numbers. <br /><br />Psaki placed at least some of the blame on Americans "who've decided not to get vaccinated." <br /><br />"I would say that this is a really tough time in our country," Psaki responded. "We’re still battling COVID, and a lot of people thought we’d be through it, including us."<br /><br />"And because of the rise of the Delta variant, because of the fact that, even though it was a vaccine that was approved under a Republican administration, even though we now have full FDA approval, and even though it’s widely available across the country, we still have … 20% of the country who've decided not to get vaccinated," she added.<br /><br />"No question that’s having an impact," Psaki said, before concluding, "And of course, as the president has said, the buck stops with him."<br /><br />In addition to the poor polls, September’s abysmal jobs report saw only 194,000 jobs added to the economy, sharply missing the 500,000 estimate economists gave.<br /><br />President Biden addressed the report Friday and defended his record on the economy as "progress" as his approval rating teeters at 38%.<br /><br />"In total, the job creation in the first eight months of my administration is nearly five million jobs," Biden said. "Jobs up, wages up, unemployment down. That's progress."
