Jim Himes: “Inflation is rocking along at three and a half percent.”

“We've just gotten back from a two month paid vacation in which federal employees didn't get paid, in which we started a war without congressional approval, in which electricity prices went up for 70 million Americans, in which Inflation is rocking along at three and a half percent. So I thought we were going to be in this chamber talking about affordability. By the way, my friends on the Republican side just got shellacked in an election from C to signing XI where the word is affordability.” (00:21–00:25)

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