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Markwayne Mullin: “Joe Biden came into office in 2022, he inherited an…”

Featuring: Markwayne Mullin, Republican | U.S. Senate, Oklahoma

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SEN. MULLIN: 'The media is flat wrong about this.' | The Evening Edit

Published | Video Starts at 00:32

Yes, some gaps in the data but what do you make of the media hot takes on all this? 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. (00:32–00:38)

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Asserts that the inflation rate was 1.4% when Joe Biden took office in 2022.

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