'Hold on a second': CNN host calls out Trump ally over inflation 'hysteria' claim

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‘Hold on a second’: CNN host calls out Trump ally over inflation ‘hysteria’ claim

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Erik De La Garza November 7, 2025 11:34PM ET

CNN anchor Abby Phillip pressed former Trump White House lawyer Jim Schultz during a heated panel exchange over inflation Friday night after Schultz argued that Americans are ‘overreacting” to the state of the economy.

“We’ve had inflation – the rate of inflation has been cut virtually in half since the Biden administration versus the Trump administration,” Schlutz said, adding that what is being debated are merely “snapshots in time.”

“What happens is there is hysteria over some of these things, right? You have folks that are overreacting to some of these things – a reaction to it that, quite frankly, isn’t justified," he said...............

“Hold on a second,” she said. “The point on the inflation piece as it relates to Trump is that inflation was trending downward; now it’s trending back up, that’s part of the problem. Yes, inflation is lower than it was during the peak of inflation. But the trajectory is the wrong trajectory.".........................

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