WASHINGTON, D.C. – The core consumer price index (CPI), measuring inflation excluding volatile food and energy prices, rose 4.5% in June from a year before, the largest increase since September of 1991. Taking food and energy prices into account, the news doesn’t improve. Consumer prices overall increased 5.4% in the same period, the sharpest move in 13 years. Both increases far surpassed estimates.
As Democrats continue to avoid talking about inflation, it is clear their policies are directly to blame. From Democrats’ over-spending to worker shortages driven by their insistence on paying people more to not work than to work, Americans are paying more for goods due to ludicrous economic policies.
Economists from both parties have been sounding the alarm for months, but their pleas have fallen on deaf ears. The economic agenda of Democrats has been taken over by Bernie Sanders and his band of socialists. The will of Senate Democrats to push back against policies that are causing more financial pain for hard-working Americans is stifled by the fear of backlash from a small but loud minority of their party.
Making matters worse for vulnerable Democrat Senators, recent NRSC battleground state polling shows that the majority of Americans have placed the blame squarely on Democrats.
Statement from NRSC Spokesman T.W. Arrighi: “Still reeling in a post-pandemic economy, Americans should remember one thing every time they open their wallets to pay more for goods they need: Democrats do not care. Democrats have outsourced their economic agenda to socialists and the result has been the highest inflation rates in decades. Sadly, it appears relief may be delayed as Senate Democrats propose new and worse spending proposals. If they don’t wake up soon, voters will wake them up by handing Republicans sound majorities in Congress in 2022.”
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