The Department of Labor said that the consumer price index rose 7.9 percent compared with a year ago.
Good point; they can’t state the true figure because besides the political fallout, they’d have to adjust Social Security payments and such.
I’m surprised this is allowed to be reported, as it seemed the Bidenistas were going to just focus on oil/gas prices and blame Putin. I saw the same thing creeping in about Ukrainian grain; another “blame Putin” move to connect gas pump prices to those on supermarket shelves.