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It was another sky-high month for inflation in August as CPI rose to 8.3% from last year, while Illinois families and businesses were once again left to bear the brunt of price increases. Nationwide, grocery prices are up 13.5% from this time last year, the largest increase since March of 1979. The blame lies squarely on the Biden Administration and Congressional Democrats who enabled the Biden-Pelosi spending binge at every turn.

“The Democrats own August’s devastating inflation numbers. Senator Duckworth, Congressman Casten, Congressman Krishnamoorthi, Congressman Foster, and Congresswoman Underwood, all must answer why they’ve supported the Biden-Pelosi inflationary spending binge every step of the way, despite dire warnings from respected Democrat economists that it would cause the very inflation that we’re seeing today,” said Illinois Republican Party Chairman Don Tracy. “We need to elect responsible Republican leadership to Congress this fall and end the Biden-Pelosi inflationary spending binge.”

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