U.S. Inflation Accelerated in June

US consumer prices pick up in June; underlying inflation still tame
www.reuters.com

... Consumer Price Index increases 0.3% in June.

Core CPI rises 0.2%; advances 2.9% on year-over-year basis.

June could mark the start of tariff-induced price rises.

U.S. consumer prices increased by the most in five months in June amid higher costs for some goods, suggesting tariffs were starting to have an impact on inflation and potentially keeping the Federal Reserve on the sidelines until September.

Despite the pick-up in the Consumer Price Index reported by the Labor Department on Tuesday, underlying inflation remained moderate last month, with prices for new and used motor vehicles lower relative to May.

Services like airline fares as well as hotel and motel rooms were also cheaper in June. ...

Food prices rose 0.3%, matching the increase in May. Grocery store prices also advanced 0.3%, lifted by a 1.4% increase in the costs of nonalcoholic beverages and 2.2% jump in coffee prices. Fruits and vegetables cost 0.9% more while beef prices jumped 2.0%. But eggs were 7.4% cheaper as an avian flu outbreak abated. ...

Household furnishings and supplies prices shot up 1.0% after climbing 0.3% in May. Prices for appliances surged 1.9% while the cost of apparel rebounded 0.4%. Sporting goods prices accelerated 1.4% while toys vaulted 1.8%. ...

Owners' equivalent rent of primary residence rose 0.3%, but the cost of hotel and motel rooms declined 3.6%. Airline fares dipped 0.1%. The costs of services excluding energy services increased 0.3% after gaining 0.2% in May. ...

"lowering taxes"

The Trump Tariffs are the largest tax increase of your lifetime.
It's weird how you can't seem to acknowledge such a simple fact.

"shutting down the border"

The border is still open. People and goods still move across the border. You do not know what "shutting down the border" means.

"eliminating fraud and waste in the federal government"

We're expanding waste.
We are spending billions to detain immigrants rather than deport them.

"We should all just get over that the left called him Hitler"
See, this is the real problem for you guys.
At your core, the reason you love Trump
Is because you have Hurt Feelings.
And you can't Get Over It.
So Trump makes you feel better.
By punishing the people you think hurt you.
Liberals. Immigrants. Muslims. Women. Career Professionals.

#59 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-07-15 12:13 PM | Reply | Flag:

No, I was responding to you saying that all Trump wants to do is tear down the left. My point was that the left wants to be torn down. They want zero accomplishments from this administration even if it helps this country because it will make them look bad and have less of a chance of holding power which is their top priority over the good of the country. The BBB was a perfect example, the left wasn't as opposed to what
was in it as they are scared it would be successful and result in future losses in elections.

"My point was that the left wants to be torn down. They want zero accomplishments from this administration even if it helps this country "

None of Trump's plans help the country.
You can't point to a single success, six months in.

We're expanding waste.
We are spending billions to detain immigrants rather than deport them.

#65 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-07-15 12:22 PM | Reply | Flag:
(Choose)

And who's fault is that? Who let them all in illegally? Who's judges are trying to stop the deportations?

Reagan, Trump, Bush, Obama, and Biden judges.

trump cant seem to follow any laws.

"And who's fault is that?"
It's the fault of the person spending the money.

"Who let them all in illegally?"
Who is spending taxpayer money to detain them, rather than simply send them home?
Whose fault is that?

None of Trump's plans help the country.
You can't point to a single success, six months in.

#67 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-07-15 12:29 PM | Reply | Flag:

You won't accept any. How about shutting down the border, how many illegals crossed in June of 2024 vs 2025?

"Who's judges are trying to stop the deportations?"

Whose administration is spending billions of taxpayer dollars to detain people before deporting them, instead of not spending those billions of dollars and simply deporting them?

Do you understand and acknowledge detention comes at a cost to the taxpayers?

Do you understand and acknowledge what Trump is doing costs more than the way deportations were done in Trump's first administration?

" we have low inflation and were able to post a budget surplus in June on the basis of 300% more money collected in tariffs vs. 2024.

100% of those tariffs were on buyers in America.

Tariffs are taxes. And inflationary.

"Who let them all in illegally?"
Who is spending taxpayer money to detain them, rather than simply send them home?
Whose fault is that?
#70 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-07-15 12:33 PM | Reply | Flag:
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Are you paying attention? Homan is trying to deport them, liberal judges are shutting him down, protestors are trying to kill ice agents.

"How about shutting down the border, how many illegals crossed in June of 2024 vs 2025?"

How many illegals were in taxpayer funded detention in June 2024 vs 2025?
If you have a way of demonstrating financial upside to the taxpayers from Trump's immigration actions, please share it with us.
You don't have that.

"Homan is trying to deport them"

No, Homan is trying to detain them.

They could be deported immediately. There's nothing stopping it. Don't you remember the deportation of Kilmar Abrego Garcia and hundreds of others to El Salvador?

left wasn't as opposed to what
was in it as they are scared it would be successful and result in future losses in elections.

POSTED BY FISHPAW

Americans will be fooled again.

That's what's "scary".

Why do you think the cuts to Medicare won't take effect until AFTER the midterms.

To fool Americans. Again.

No Kings!

Hey TACO man ... this is NACHO kingdom!

@#62

Looks to me like we are in a transition period...

The old reasons for inflation seem to be diminishing, e.g., new and used autos, travel expenses (lodging, air fares, etc).

While goods affected by tariffs seem be having a growing effect upon inflation, e.g., household furnishings and supplies, appliances, apparel, footware, etc.

fishpaw should be asking why we are detaining instead of deporting.

but he wont because the answer is horrifying.

"fishpaw should be asking why we are detaining instead of deporting."

Yes he should.
But he cannot acknowledge the truth of what's happening.
His answer is always going to be, for the rest of his life: "Liberals"

As usual can't refute what I said so had to resort to childish name calling.

#61 | POSTED BY FISHPAW

You said nothing warranting a refutation you stupid f*^%.

You're just regurgitating evidence free talking points your brain dead stupid a%^ repeats because you've been told to repeat.

The answer is we are detaining people to be cruel and use them as slave labor.

The Trump Tariffs are the largest tax increase of your lifetime.
It's weird how you can't seem to acknowledge such a simple fact.

#63 | POSTED BY SNOOFY

Because that stupid pile of s*^# believes what he's told to believe.

The BBB was a perfect example, the left wasn't as opposed to what
was in it as they are scared it would be successful and result in future losses in elections.

#66 | POSTED BY FISHPAW

You. Are. F*^%ing. Stupid.

Only a complete f*^%ing moron would think the "adults are driving" right now.

#53 | Posted by jpw at 2025-07-15 12:06 PM | Reply | Flag:

Auto Pen is on line 3 holding for you.

" the left wasn't as opposed to what
was in it"

lie. i am opposed to cutting 800 billion dollars in medicare. period.

"Auto Pen is on line 3 holding for you."

That's Jim Comer:
www.theguardian.com

To further the investigation regarding Biden's use of Autopen, Comer used Autopen to sign the documents.

It's like the comedy writes itself!

"the left wasn't as opposed to what was in it"

You obviously get your "news" from sources who believe you're too stupid to handle the truth.

they aint wrong. he is too stupid.

imagine tying your entire personality to a ------- politician, now imagine its donald trump.

jesus.

Now you progressives care about inflation? You didnt care under Biden.

...care about inflation? You didnt care under Biden.

And now you don't, but you did then. See how that works?

Now you progressives care about inflation? You didnt care under Biden.
#91 | Posted by boaz

We cared enough to call it transitory. :)

Biden cared enough that inflation was lower post COVID in the United States compared to the rest of the modern world.

It's you who doesn't care about inflation.

Its you who doesn't understand tariffs cause inflation.

@#93 ... It's you who doesn't care about inflation.

Its you who doesn't understand tariffs cause inflation. ...

Trump tariffs push up inflation despite pressure on Fed to cut rates
www.politico.com

... The White House has been trumpeting the absence of tariff-related price hikes as a sign that the president's agenda is succeeding.

Inflation rose in June as President Donald Trump's tariffs began to push up the prices of certain goods, undermining his attempts to pressure Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell to lower interest rates.

The Consumer Price Index increased at an annual rate of 2.7 percent, after rising 2.4 percent in May, as the impact of taxes on imports started to become visible at checkout. While housing prices -- as well as volatile food and energy prices -- contributed heavily to the uptick, tariff-sensitive products like apparel and household furnishings also reported sizable gains. Core inflation, which excludes food and energy costs, rose at an annual rate of 2.9 percent. ...

"Since Biden handed Trump the worst economy in the history of the country, yes, we are still recovering from it. We may never fully recover from what Biden did, so I would expect to see more inflation in the future. It is so sad what he did to us."

- Trump

Hey terard, you do realize that the potus doesn't do everything, right?

And that "adults" means far more than one person, right?

In any case, thanks for the regurgitated talking point. Idiot.

Now you progressives care about inflation? You didnt care under Biden.

#91 | POSTED BY BOAZ

These idiots can't really be this stupid, can they?

Now you progressives care about inflation? You didnt care under Biden.

#91 | POSTED BY BOAZ

Biden didn't cause inflation. COVID did.

Trump has intentionally caused inflation.

Yes, BOAZ IS that stupid.

Sorry, my day has been wasted getting my RealID.

Let's parse:
... he used the Steele dossier to start the Russian Hoax

Not a hoax - you are a liar. Russia interfered in the 2016 election, almost immediately after FDT told them to iduring the campaign apnews.com The dossier was released AFTER the Russian interference was already being investigated. The dossier was not used to start the investigation.

after his staff said it was completely false. Not all of the memos from Steele were false. Some of the rumors were planted by Russian assets, some of the memos were verifiably true. His staff considered it spurious, so he may have ignored them, but your comment is mostly a lie. You have access to the timeline, but you continue to lie to cover for the rapist felon. Bravo

Nobody in the IC needed the Steele dossier to prove Russia interfered with the election.

It is fun to watch you Russia-loving fascists get all bent out of shape about the peeper tape, though. You're all a bunch of weirdos when it comes to pee ...

Now you progressives care about inflation? You didnt care under Biden.

#91 | Posted by boaz

There was no inflation under Biden.

There was Greedflation and record corporate profits.

Trump proved it. Corporations ate price hikes from the tariffs thus far. They couldn't do that if there was actual inflation under Biden.

Repubicans continue to show just how bad at math they are.

President Biden handed Epstein's closest friend the strongest post-COVID economy in the world, and he destroyed it in under 6 months.

---- each and every one of you --------- stupid MAGAT mouth breathing retarded imbeciles.

@#23 ... he used the Steele dossier to start the Russian Hoax after his staff said it was completely false....

The Steele Dossier was a collection of raw information, nothing more, nothing less.

The Steele Dossier: A Retrospective (2018)
www.lawfaremedia.org

... The dossier compiled by former British intelligence officer Christopher Steele remains a subject of fascination"or, depending on your perspective, scorn. Indeed, it was much discussed during former FBI Director Jim Comey's testimony in front of the House Judiciary Committee on Dec. 7. Published almost two years ago by BuzzFeed News in January 2017, the document received significant public attention, first for its lurid details regarding Donald Trump's pre-presidential alleged sexual escapades in Russia and later for its role in forming part of the basis for the government's application for a FISA warrant to surveil Carter Page.

Our interest in revisiting the compilation that has come to be called the "Steele Dossier" concerns neither of those topics, at least not directly. Rather, we returned to the document because we wondered whether information made public as a result of the Mueller investigation"and the passage of two years"has tended to buttress or diminish the crux of Steele's original reporting.

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The dossier is actually a series of reports"16 in all"that total 35 pages. Written in 2016, the dossier is a collection of raw intelligence. Steele neither evaluated nor synthesized the intelligence. He neither made nor rendered bottom-line judgments. The dossier is, quite simply and by design, raw reporting, not a finished intelligence product.

In that sense, the dossier is similar to an FBI 302 form or a DEA 6 form. Both of those forms are used by special agents of the FBI and DEA, respectively, to record what they are told by witnesses during investigations. The substance of these memoranda can be true or false, but the recording of information is (or should be) accurate. In that sense, notes taken by a special agent have much in common with the notes that a journalist might take while covering a story"the substance of those notes could be true or false, depending on what the source tells the journalist, but the transcription should be accurate.

With that in mind, we thought it would be worthwhile to look back at the dossier and to assess, to the extent possible, how the substance of Steele's reporting holds up over time. ...

An article worthy of reading.

I have posted that excerpt and link to the article many times in the past, yet your current alias seems to choose to remain ignorant about the dossier. Why?

@#105 ... An article worthy of reading. ...

But more important to the topic of this thread, from #62 ...

US consumer prices pick up in June; underlying inflation still tame
www.reuters.com

...Consumer Price Index increases 0.3% in June.

Core CPI rises 0.2%; advances 2.9% on year-over-year basis.

June could mark the start of tariff-induced price rises.

U.S. consumer prices increased by the most in five months in June amid higher costs for some goods, suggesting tariffs were starting to have an impact on inflation and potentially keeping the Federal Reserve on the sidelines until September.

Despite the pick-up in the Consumer Price Index reported by the Labor Department on Tuesday, underlying inflation remained moderate last month, with prices for new and used motor vehicles lower relative to May.

Services like airline fares as well as hotel and motel rooms were also cheaper in June. ...

Food prices rose 0.3%, matching the increase in May. Grocery store prices also advanced 0.3%, lifted by a 1.4% increase in the costs of nonalcoholic beverages and 2.2% jump in coffee prices. Fruits and vegetables cost 0.9% more while beef prices jumped 2.0%. But eggs were 7.4% cheaper as an avian flu outbreak abated. ...

Household furnishings and supplies prices shot up 1.0% after climbing 0.3% in May. Prices for appliances surged 1.9% while the cost of apparel rebounded 0.4%. Sporting goods prices accelerated 1.4% while toys vaulted 1.8%. ...

Owners' equivalent rent of primary residence rose 0.3%, but the cost of hotel and motel rooms declined 3.6%. Airline fares dipped 0.1%. The costs of services excluding energy services increased 0.3% after gaining 0.2% in May. ...