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Are Prices up or Down? Parsing Misleading Claims by Trump and Democrats

UNITED STATES, JUL 31 – Conflicting claims by Trump and Democrats highlight inflation trends and rising costs for food and electricity amid ongoing economic recovery and tariff impacts, with food prices up 2.4% recently.

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By Alan Jaffe and Saranac Hale Spencer About six months into the second term of President Donald Trump, Republicans and Democrats are making conflicting and often misleading assessments of the Trump administration’s impact on inflation and prices. Both sides cherry-pick examples of consumer products to support their claims while sometimes wrongly taking credit for lower prices or falsely casting blame for rising costs. Experts say the reasons fo…

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Fact Check broke the news in on Thursday, July 31, 2025.
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