Rove on soaring inflation, Biden admin doubling-down on blame game: ‘Are they thinking we’re dumb?’

Fox News contributor Karl Rove dissected the inflation record on “America Reports” Friday after the release of the May Consumer Price Index showing inflation at 8.6%. Rove outlined the progression of inflation since President Biden took office and criticized th administration for continuing to blame Vladimir Putin’s war in Ukraine.

ntext a little bit. In January of ’21, when Joe Biden comes into office, the inflation rate was 1.4%. That’s below the target set by the Federal Reserve. By April, after the passage of the American Rescue Plan, $1.9 trillion of additional spending that even Democratic economists warned might kick off inflation, the inflation rate was 4.16%. Think about that. It nearly tripled in the course of four months. By July, it was 5.3%. By October 5.2%. It sort of moderated a little bit, but still stuck up there higher than it was at the beginning of the year. And then by January, it had grown to 7.48%, April 8.25%, and then 8.582%. [A] 41year high! 

 

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