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This Moderate Dem Warned of Inflation—and No One Listened

ANYONE THERE?

Rep. Abigail Spanberger found herself increasingly frustrated with her party’s failure to acknowledge the threat of inflation until it was already seemingly out of control.

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Rep. Abigail Spanberger has been sounding the alarm on inflation for nearly a year. But at times, it was as if she was screaming into the void.

As she was pointing to rising prices in her local grocery stores, Democratic figures, including Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, maintained inflation would be “transitory”...

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