CNN Fact Checks Biden Econ Advisor Rouse on Inflation: ‘Prices Are Rising for Everything’

‘I get the world oil markets are up, but as you know, prices are rising for everything, used cars, rent’

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ROUSE: "So, look, the president very much understands and we very much understand that we've got uncomfortably high inflation. What we saw in the data this month was that month on month prices increased overall. The headline CPI increased about 1 percent and about half of that was due to food and energy which can be almost directly tied to Putin’s invasion of Ukraine. And so --"
SCIUTTO: "It’s not just that, you know. It's not -- the prices are rising. I get the world oil markets are up, but as you know, prices are rising for everything, used cars, rent."

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