Psaki's blaming came as Biden's approval rating plunged to 38 percent, with 53 percent stating they disapprove of how Biden has handled the presidency, according to a survey from Quinnipiac University on Friday.
"So what do you make of these really terrible polls? Are they that he's doing something wrong? Is it just communication? Or is it that he's doing unpopular things that just have to be done?" a reporter asked at the press briefing.
Psaki responded: "Well, look, I would say that this is a really tough time in our country. We're still battling Covid and a lot of people thought we'd be through it - including us."
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"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 a quarter of the country - less than that, 20 percent of the country - who've decided not to get vaccinated."
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"No question that's having an impact," Psaki announced, continuing that, "as the President has said, the buck stops with him" before signing off.
Three weeks ago, the same survey discovered that 42 percent approved and 50 percent disapproved.
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In the latest survey, 32 percent of Independents approve of Biden while 60 percent disapprove. Four percent of Republicans approve - 94 percent disapprove. Nevertheless, 80 percent of Democrats approve of the president's job overall and 10 percent disapprove.
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Biden got his lowest marks on immigration, where just 25 percent approve and 67 percent disapprove, and further got low marks on his "first love," foreign policy, where just 34 percent approved and 58 percent disapproved.
Of his job as commander-in-chief, 37 percent approved, 58 percent disapproved, according to the survey.
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Approximately three in 10 Americans (28 percent) agreed with Biden's choice to withdraw all troops from Afghanistan, while 50 percent believe the US should have withdrawn some troops but not all troops and about 15 percent think the US should not have withdrawn any troops from Afghanistan.
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In the meantime, Congress remains at an obstacle at the sweeping spending plans that will define his presidency and the threat of debt default looms.
At the same time, Biden got the worst jobs report of his presidency. Earlier today he pressed Americans to look at the bigger picture, pushing his infrastructure bill and a trillion-dollar package of social programs.
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