phil swagel, who's the cbo director -- now, the guy's a republican, okay? i don't know what he's doing. he's covering up the biden inflation by using 2019 as a base instead of 2021. so i did some numbers, just hear me out. i'll be through it in a second. the actual inflation rate under bide an yulized is 5.6% at an annual rate. under mr. trump's four years -- this is biden, three years and one quarter. under trump's entire administration, it was. -- 1.9, okay in 5.6 biden. the second point i'll make is the level of the cpi through april, 19.9, okay, percent. it's actually 19.866. i'm only doing that a because art laffer likes to do math and arithmetic, all right? so up almost 20. call it 20. you know what? the entire trump term, four years, the level of the cpi was up 7.7%. so it's 7.7 versus 20. all right, couldn't be clearer. how can the cbo try to explain that way? how can jared bernstein -- who is a friend of ours, for heavens sake -- still propagate the lie that biden inherited a 9% inflation rate, jodey arrington? >> well, no. they obviously had to bo