Memo Urges Republican House Members to Play Up the Accelerating Price Inflation

According to Axios, a memo being sent out by Rep. Jim Banks (R-Ind.), who leads the Republican Study Committee, urges Republican House members to play up concerns about the accelerating price inflation and to pin it on the Biden Administration.

From Axios:

 The document, carrying the subject line, "Tie Biden Agenda to Inflation," tells members to "explain to voters how inflation is Democrats’ hidden tax on the Middle Class."

• It also provides a series of talking points such as telling voters "your dollar won’t go as far" if Biden continues to "devalue our currency," through COVID-19 stimulus payments and "generous unemployment benefits."
• Banks also cites the warnings of Larry Summers, President Clinton’s Treasury secretary and former director of the National Economic Council during the Obama administration.
• Summers cautioned in a Washington Post op-ed that Biden's stimulus could "set off inflationary pressures of a kind we have not seen in a generation."

Between the lines: Republicans have already drawn parallels between Biden and President Carter as inflation continues to seep into the public consciousness.

• The memo is being sent Monday as members prepare to fly home to their districts this week for a three-week recess, beginning with the Memorial Day holiday.

While it is true that Biden is fueling the price inflation flames, it should be remembered that the price inflation tsunami, that is about to hit, started under the leadership of Donald Trump when the Federal Reserve increased the money supply by $4 trillion in 2020.

When it comes to price inflation, Biden, like Trump, will have no objections until the masses start to squawk.  

 -RW