Markwayne Mullin: “In a year and a half it was up to 9.1%.”

“Well, the media is flat wrong. Keep, keep in mind when Joe Biden came into office in 2022, he inherited an inflation rate at 1.4%. In a year and a half it was up to 9.1%. We had, they, we had to raise interest rates to build a head off the inflation which caused the economy to go into spiral.” (00:37–00:41)

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