Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg‘s claim about inflation came under scrutiny from Gordon Johnson of GLJ Research, who argued in an X post on Wednesday that pricing pressures have actually been trending upward. What Happened: Commenting on a news story that contended claims by Republican Vice President candidate Sen. J.D. Vance (R-Ohio) that the Inflation Reduction Action of 2022 stoking pricing pressure, Buttigieg, who serves in the [Joe] Biden administration, said, “Sure is interesting how we passed the Inflation Reduction Act, and then inflation went down.” The Inflation Reduction Act…
