For months, the inflation conversation has circled around tariffs, supply chains, and corporate greed. A new Congressional Budget Office report, cited in NPR’s weekly news roundup, points somewhere else entirely: the ongoing U.S. war in Iran.
CBO’s fiscal analysts reportedly identify the war as the leading cause of the relentless price increases hitting American households this year — not a secondary factor buried in a footnote, but the headline driver.
That’s a hard thing to put on a campaign mailer heading into a midterm year, which may be exactly why it isn’t getting the airtime a government inflation report should get.
Receipts, not rhetoric: when the people running the numbers say the war is what’s raising your bill, that’s worth more attention than another cable panel arguing about interest rates.
What’s your read — is the connection between the war spending and your monthly bills something you’re feeling already? Drop it in the comments on TEG Exchange.