Trump returns to the U.S. from China with pressure over rising inflation

What happened

According to PBS News’s source item, Trump returns to the U.S. from China with pressure over rising inflation, WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump returned from the spectacle of a Chinese state visit to a less than welcoming U.S. economy — with the military band and garden tour in Beijing giving way to pressure over how to fix America’s escalating inflation rate. Consumer inflation in the United States increased to 3.8% annually in April, higher than what he inherited as the Iran war and the Republican president’s own tariffs have pushed up prices….

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