The Biden administration is bracing for inflation to continue its historic rise when the March Consumer Price Index is published Tuesday morning.

White House press secretary Jen Psaki told reporters in Monday’s briefing that while “we are in a better place than we were last month,” the administration expects “headline inflation to be extraordinarily elevated due to Putin’s price hike.”

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