Lawmakers like Senate GOP Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), moderate Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W. Va.), and others are responding after a Thursday morning report showed that inflation in 2021 hit its highest annual point since 1982.
The fact that inflation has been rising is no surprise—for months, the U.S. Labor Department’s Consumer Price Index (CPI) has shown that rising prices have been battering consumers, and month after month prices have continued to rise.
