Republicans will most likely keep using inflation as a battle line, while political strategists see it just as a talking point.
"It's a talking point for them in the sense that they are going to keep saying it out loud" and it's"a pretty useless and stupid one," said Eddie Vale, a partner at New Paradigm Strategy group and a veteran of Democratic and progressive political and legislative campaigns.
House Minority Whip Steve Scalise, R-La., talking about the passage of both the bipartisan infrastructure bill and the budget reconciliation deal in an interview last month on"Mornings With Maria" on the Fox Business channel, called the measures “horrible policy” and said they would saddle that nation with debt “that will add to inflation that’s already out of control."
The administration, however, points to the pandemic as the cause of the surge in inflation and argues that it will fade quickly, dropping to 2.5 percent in 2022. "I think for some Republicans, they're quite happy to rather be talking about kind of more normal political issues," Heye said."So not talking about masks or mandates or whatever, they'd rather talk about the economy."
"I understand why the Republicans are pushing this — it helps them if they can get people pissed off at Biden, and you know the out-of-pocket costs, but overall I don't think it's likely to be the benefit that they think it is," Timmer said.
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