Donald Trump, Inflation and April
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Donald Trump is pressuring the Federal Reserve to cut interest rates following a favorable inflation report, arguing that the current base rate is too high with a modest 2.3% annual CPI increase. However,
This week's inflation report will offer a first look at how President Donald Trump's "Liberation Day" tariff announcement has impacted pricing across the United States. Trump's tariff escalation, announced April 2,
Federal Reserve Vice Chair Philip Jefferson said Wednesday that if the tariffs already unveiled by President Trump are sustained it will cause "at least" a temporary increase in inflation.
President Donald Trump cited a softer-than-expected inflation report to again pressure Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell to lower interest rates.
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Trump has argued that inflation is down before. While it's steadily ebbed in recent years, prices are still rising faster than the Fed would like.
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Investors eye more trade deals, updates from President Trump’s trip to the Middle East and fresh consumer inflation data after U.S. stocks soared Monday as investors celebrated major progress on U.S.-China trade talks.
Inflation fell by one tenth of a percentage point to 2.3% for the year ending in April, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Tuesday in an update to the consumer price index. Forecasters had expected inflation to hold at 2.
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The Western Journal on MSNBreaking: New Inflation Numbers Crush Democrats' Narrative About Trump's Tariff StrategyDemocrats and their media cheerleaders have been wailing for months that President Donald Trump’s tariff policies would ignite a wildfire of inflation, scorching American wallets. Yet, here we are, with fresh inflation numbers that slap their fearmongering narrative right across the face.
Annualized inflation eased to a 2.3 percent pace, the lowest since early 2021. But the month-to-month pace of inflation increased.
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Inflation may have picked up slightly last month as President Donald Trump's widespread tariffs kicked in, a trend economists expect will become more visible in the coming months.