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Numbers of the Day May 12, 2026 · 9:33 pm ET Source: Bloomberg Politics

War in Iran Is Now a Grocery Receipt

Food, fuel, rent
all accelerating in the May core inflation print

The war in Iran is transmitting directly into American household budgets — energy costs spiking, supply chains tightening, rent still sticky. That's the triple-cost squeeze that ends midterm majorities. Democrats need a clean accountability line: Trump owns this war, Trump owns this inflation. Republicans who voted against Iran war powers oversight handed him that exposure and own it too.

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