For the last two months, Sen. Rob Portman has taken to the Senate floor once a week to issue an important warning. Namely, that President Joe Biden’s proposed multitrillion-dollar tax and spending bill would stoke even more inflation in an already overheated economy.

The senator’s repeated sounding of the alarm has been right on the mark.

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