Inflation Drops as Democrat Claims Go Up in Smoke
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries hit the floor this week. His message? Prices are climbing under Trump. It’s a line Democrats have been pushing since day one.
But reality paints a different picture. Inflation has just taken a dive for the first time in months. Jeffries’ claims just don’t hold water.
Check out Jeffries making his claims below:
Now, here’s what’s really going on. CNBC reported this:
Inflation rate eases to 2.4% in March, lower than expected; core at 4-year low
Consumer price inflation eased more than expected in March as President Donald Trump prepared to launch tariffs against U.S. trading partners, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Thursday.
The consumer price index, a broad measure of goods and services costs across the U.S. economy, fell a seasonally adjusted 0.1% in March, putting the 12-month inflation rate at 2.4%, down from 2.8% in February.
Excluding food and energy, so-called core inflation ran at a 2.8% annual rate, having increased 0.1% for the month. That was the lowest rate for core inflation since March 2021.
Wall Street had been looking for headline inflation of 2.6% and core at 3%, according to the Dow Jones consensus.
Even CNN had to deliver the good news on inflation. Take a look:
With the economy getting stronger by the day, it’s only going to get tougher for Democrats. They might actually run out of things to whine about. The facts are hard to ignore.
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