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U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) is criticizing President Joe Biden's administration on several fronts including inflation, weak foreign policy and unemployment.

“Calling @POTUS and his administration incompetent is too kind," Johnson tweeted. "Open borders, out of control spending, weak foreign policy, rising oil and gas prices. This is what their policies are designed to create.”

The senator said he has been warning about the Democrat's "reckless economic policies" for months.

"We are paying people not to work," he wrote in another tweet. "We have a severe labor crisis in this country and supply shortages. Democrats want more out of control deficit spending. That’s why we have record inflation.” 

Consumer prices in the U.S. increased by 6.2% from October 2020 to October 2021, the website Statista reported.

In Wisconsin, the price of a gallon of regular gas has jumped from $1.92 a gallon a year to $3.13 currently, the American Automobile Association said.

The state's non-farm labor force has shrunk by 200,000 during the pandemic, and now stands at 2.8 million, though Wisconsin has a non-farm labor force of about 2.8 million people, the Post-Crescent reported. Wisconsin's unemployment rate is currently 3.9%, the state reported.

In September, the U.S. Border Patrol encountered 192,000 people trying to enter the country illegally, nearly four times the number in the same month in 2020 and 2019,  the agency reported. 

Since the pandemic began in March 2020 until July 2021, states have distributed $794 billion in combined state and federal unemployment benefits, CNBC reported.