After April’s consumer price index (CPI) report was published, a number of American economists and bureaucrats said that inflation had peaked and it was possible that inflation would subside. However, statistics from the U.S. Labor Department indicate the CPI increased 8.6% from a year earlier, as the month of May’s inflation data reached another lifetime high.
In 2020, Democrat senator John Kerry said “Congressman Massie has tested positive for being an a**hole.” The Kentucky representative also decided to mock Kerry’s tweet and remarked that he predicts “Democrats will sequester John Kerry and his energy-price-hiking dogma in a rock formation until at least November.” Massie added:
Here’s his doltish tweet when I opposed the first $2 trillion printing spree on March 27, 2020 – because it was going to cause inflation .
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