Inflation is back, rearing its ugly head.

Inflation's heating up again.

To its highest level in almost three years.

And we've got to get it back down.

Since President Trump ordered strikes on Iran,

and Iran retaliated by shuddering tanker traffic through the Strait of Hormuz.

Prices all over the country are up.

Many families are struggling with costs.

I just drove by a gas station a day, and it said $7.25 a gallon.

Yesterday you could afford to fill the car with gas. Today you can't.

And that means transportation by truck, train, or plane has become more expensive, too.

Grocery prices, for example, jumped about 7 tenths of a percent last month alone.

I'm not buying this. I can't afford it.

People are tired of getting ripped off on food prices.

Boy, I'd love to have some beef.

It isn't just food. It's housing, health insurance, mortgage rates.

The cost of living rises with inflation.

And that means our money goes less far.

No one is happy about that.

Consumers are just to the point where give us a break.

You're stuck and your dollars are buying less and less.

And it's happening at a time when the nation's main inflation fighting institution, the Federal Reserve,

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