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THE MAIN THING: Highest Inflation Surge in Nearly Four Decades
Bad news for Americans: The latest Consumer Price Index numbers are in. It’s bad. Americans are seeing a 6.8% price increase in November compared to last year. That’s the largest annual increase in over 39 years.
What that means for pocketbooks: Real average hourly earnings decreased 1.9%, with inflation eating up workers' wage gains.
Biden’s reckless spending sprees are making everything more expensive. Just look at the numbers:
- Gas: +58.1% since last year
- Bacon: +21%
- Eggs: +8%
- Steak: +24.6%
- Propane & Firewood: +34.3%
- Furniture: +11.8%
- Used Cars & Trucks: +31.4%
- Coffee: +7.5%
- Cigarettes: +9.4%
- Hotels & Motels: +25.5%
- Car & Truck Rentals: +37.2%
- Bikes: +9.4%
Who does this hurt: More than 70% of households making less than $40,000 have experienced financial hardship due to Bidenflation.
Biden making it worse: Biden is pushing his $2 trillion Build Back Broke agenda, which will only make inflation worse.
- New Congressional Budget Office numbers out on Friday showed if Biden’s new policies were made permanent, it could add nearly $3 trillion to the national debt.
- RNC Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel: “Joe Biden and the Democrats’ Build Back Broke agenda created historically high inflation, making Americans pay more for nearly everything this holiday season… Americans can thank Biden and the Democrats for the most expensive holiday season on record.”
Gas. Groceries. Gifts. Americans are paying more for nearly everything this holiday season because of Joe Biden and Democrats’ failed policies.
Biden Lies: One Year Since Biden Promised No Vaccine Mandate
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This week marked the one-year anniversary of Biden’s vow that he “wouldn’t demand [the vaccine] be mandatory.”
- The Biden administration argued for months a vaccine mandate would be a counterproductive overreach .
- Press Secretary Psaki said, that’s “not a role that the federal government even has the power to make.”
Politically expedient: All of these promises went out the window when it was no longer politically expedient and Biden announced Americans could be fired for not complying with his federal mandate.
- Republicans Fighting Back: The Republican National Committee, GOP-led states, and small businesses sued and we are winning in court, freezing the mandate from going into effect.
Voters know: Democrats are more worried about advancing their draconian policies than they are preserving individual liberties. Just look at what they’re doing at the state and local levels:
- Democrat New York City Mayor Bill DeBlasio furloughed 9,000 city employees under his vaccine mandate.
- In New York State, 34,000 healthcare workers either lost their jobs or were put on leave.
- In Los Angeles County, Sheriff Alex Villanueva warned that his 18,000 employee department could lose “5, 10% of my workforce overnight.”
- In Chicago, 4,500 officers, 35% of the Chicago police force, were placed on no-pay status.
- The American Trucking Association said a nationwide mandate could lead to up to 13% of truck drivers leaving their jobs and “cripple the supply chain throughout the country.” That’s on top of the supply chain crisis we’re already facing.
These mandates hit our frontline workers and small businesses hardest. That’s bad for everyone, but thankfully Republicans are fighting back and winning.
- “The Biden administration does not have the authority to force hardworking Americans to choose between being vaccinated and providing for their families,” said RNC Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel
“This egregious affront to constitutionality and freedom must not be allowed to stand – that’s why the RNC is suing the Biden administration to defend the rights of every American.”
12 Days of Crisis: RNC Launches New Series Slamming Biden’s Failures
Latest video series: The GOP launched a new video series this week entitled “12 Days of Crises,” slamming Joe Biden on the multiple crises he created in his first 10 months in office.
- Between now and Christmas, the RNC video series will be highlighting many of Biden’s failures, including his border crisis, the Afghanistan disaster, and skyrocketing prices.
- Watch the first and second days of crises here.
Stay tuned: Biden’s term in office has been nothing but chaos and disaster.
- Americans have felt the devastating impact of Biden’s failed policies and leadership and deserve answers on these exploding crises.
WATCH: New Episode of “Real America” Featuring Congresswoman Kat Cammack
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The latest on Real America: Chairwoman McDaniel released a new episode of her podcast “Real America” this week, featuring Congresswoman Kat Cammack.
- Rep. Cammack is the youngest Republican woman in the 117th Congress. She is a graduate of the Naval War College and formerly served as the Deputy Chief of Staff to her predecessor in Florida’s 3 rd district.
The Important Issues: Chairwoman McDaniel and Congresswoman Cammack discuss the left's attack on our police, how to protect America's farmland, and what it means to be a young, pro-life, conservative woman in Congress.
- Democrat Hypocrisy: “I find it pretty hypocritical that a lot of Democrat members want to talk about justice, but it's never justice for the unborn and those who don't have a voice,” said Congresswoman Cammack.
- “We all take the same oath to the United States Constitution. We all are charged with upholding life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. It's in our DNA as Americans. But if you can't protect life, then what are you doing?”
Check out the full episode here.
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