The speaker holds that inflation is increasing as a direct consequence of the ongoing war.

“It's why I said this war continues to drag on because that's also a drag on the CPI and and cause the CPI to go up. We're going to finish this year close to 6% inflation.”

Brian Tyler Cohen asserts that the current economic situation has deteriorated under Republican governance, citing higher inflation, consumer prices, gas, and electricity rates.

“how is there a single economic metric that's improved in Trump's term? Or since Republicans have controlled the government, inflation's higher, consumer prices are higher, gas is higher, electricity rates are higher.”