Democrats Again Try To Blame Republicans For Inflation That Mostly Happened Under Biden

Democrats are attempting to draw negative attention to the U.S. economy under Republican leadership, but cite price increases that began in the middle of former President Joe Biden’s sole White House term.

The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) in July launchedHouseRepublicanPriceHike.com, an interactive tool aiming to highlight how the cost of some grocery store items have increased under House Republicans’ watch. The DCCC claims on its webpage that “under Republicans, costs have soared and Americans are paying more than ever.”

However, the DCCC’s interactive tool notably states that the grocery prices it lists, which cite data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) and the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, are since 2022, when Biden and former Vice President Kamala Harris were still in office. Democrats controlled the House for the entirety of 2022, with the GOP taking control of the chamber in January 2023. The Democratic Party also held the Senate until January 2025.

The DCCC wrote in a Thursday X post that “Republicans are ruining everyone’s Labor Day cookouts by making everything more expensive — and Americans deserve to know the truth.” On Thursday, the DCCC also launched an ad campaign aiming to slam Republicans over inflation ahead of Labor Day, CBS News first