The year-over-year inflation rate in January, the month President Donald Trump returned to the White House, was 3.0%.
The year-over-year inflation rate in September, the most recent month for which Consumer Price Index figures have been released, was … the same, 3.0%.
The fact that the inflation rate eight months into Trump’s term was unchanged from the one he inherited has debunked his triumphant claims that “inflation has stopped” after he “inherited the worst inflation in the history of our country.” So what is a White House to do when the real comparisons aren’t working in its favor?
Trump’s team has chosen to use some misleading comparisons – deploying apples-to-oranges sets of st
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