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Pete Buttigieg: “The rate of inflation is higher than the day that Donald…”

Featuring: Pete Buttigieg, Democratic | Former Secretary of Transportation, Former Mayor of South Bend | National

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Published | Video Starts at 11:11

And here you have inflation, you know, they were telling us last week to celebrate inflation numbers that show that The rate of inflation is higher than the day that Donald Trump took over from Joe Biden. It was about 3% then. It's 3.5% now. And they actually consider that good news because that's better than it was a couple of months earlier. Earlier. This is what we were up against. (11:11–11:20)

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Asserts that inflation rates have increased from 3% to 3.5% since Donald Trump took office.

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