“Vice President Kamala Harris “cast the tiebreaking votes that caused the worst inflation in American history, costing a typical American family $28,000.”
What PolitiFact found
Inflation peaked in 2022 at about 9% — the worst in 40 years, but not the worst in U.S. history. Economists agree that the American Rescue Plan sparked some of that inflation increase, but not a majority.
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In short
Donald Trump (former president) made this claim around 8 September 2024. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 9 September 2024, 1 day later. Its rating was “Mostly False”.
Donald Trump has 1,168 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 663 of them false or fake, 375 misleading or mixed and 13 true.
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