REPUBLICAN President Rage Erupts as Inflation Rises and His Pollster Openly Panics<

The Daily Blast with Greg Sargent <



On Tuesday, we learned that inflation rose last month. The New York Times said inflation "ac-celerated," ABC News noted it "surged," and other reports observed that REPUBLICAN President Trump's tariffs are starting to produce long-predicted price hikes. <


Republican Trump reacted angrily. He pretended the surge was nonexistent, and then deflected by unleashing a furious tweet at Federal Reserve chairman Jerome Powell that demanded: "Bring down the Fed rate NOW!!!" Trump, GOP PREZ, then unleashed an angry rant to reporters further excoriating Powell. Trump might have also been ticked because his 2024 cam- paign polling firm just released a memo harshly warning that House Republicans are in trouble in the midterms, and Republican Trump's cuts to the safety net help explain why. We talked to economist Kathryn Edwards, a skillful decoder of Trumpo-nomics. She explains the inflation news, why Trump's perfect storm of policies is badly hurting working people, and how Democrats should respond by swinging big on the economy in ways they usually don't.