May 12, 2026 10:07 AM UTC

It's Official: Trumpflation Is Burying Gabe Evans

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• by: Colorado Pols

As the New York Times reports today, new inflation numbers confirm the devastating impact on the American economy of President Donald Trump’s war on Iran, piling on to the pain for American families resulting directly from the spending cuts made by Trump and Republicans in Washington, D.C. last year

Consumer prices in the United States rose at the fastest rate since May 2023 last month, as sharp increases in energy costs caused by war in the Middle East made life more expensive for American consumers.

The Consumer Price Index rose 3.8 percent in April from a year earlier, the Labor Department reported on Tuesday, up from a 2.4 percent annual increase before the conflict started in February and a 3.3 percent increase in March…

As the heat from President Trump’s tariffs has faded from inflation readings this year, shortages of commodities blocked from transiting through the Strait of Hormuz are taking its place as a pressure on prices. Average gasoline prices are above $4.50 per gallon, according to AAA, while diesel prices have nearly doubled.

This new confirmation of surging “Trumpflation” comes as a new CNN poll shows Americans are approaching record levels of dissatisfaction with Trump’s handling of, well, everything:

CNN’s poll, conducted by SSRS, finds a surge in people naming high prices and the cost of living as the top economic problem facing their family. Strong majorities are pessimistic about the economy as a whole — almost 7 in 10 believe a recession is likely in the next year — and about their own ability to cover expenses and make purchases.

Those negative feelings about the economy, with major political implications for the midterms, reflect the strain across economic, generational and partisan lines on Americans’ everyday lives. Many people are trimming their grocery lists and cutting back spending on extras, and few feel comfortably able to save.

There’s really no way to overstate how bad these polling numbers are for Republicans going into the midterm elections. 70% of respondents disapprove of Trump’s handling of the economy, 69% disapprove on foreign policy, and 67% say Trump’s policies are not “helping the middle class.” Meanwhile, the issues where Trump had previously shown strength, immigration and taxes, are now underwater with 59% opposed to the immigration crackdown and 62% against Republicans on tax policy.

The growing popular discontent with Trump and Republicans over the deteriorating state of the economy and the war on Iran is more career-ending news for vulnerable Republicans like Colorado’s Rep. Gabe Evans. Evans as readers know has chosen to fully embrace the war on Iran, reciting administration talking points with his trademark impish sarcasm that reeks of contemptuous dishonesty. Like Evans’ full-throated support for Trump’s backfired mass deportation scheme and the Republican budget bill Evans cast the deciding vote to pass, these were deliberate choices Evans made.

In November, Evans will be first in line to pay the price for those choices. At this rate, Republicans will be fighting to save far less vulnerable members.