A small business owner spoke with Republican Tennessee Sen. Marsha Blackburn about how stubbornly high inflation under the Biden-Harris administration is impacting the company’s bottom line.
Jeni Donahue, the owner of Artistic Printers, a family-owned print shop in Greenville, Tennessee, told Blackburn how rising costs are forcing them to raise prices and limit hiring in a video shared exclusively with the Daily Caller News Foundation. Inflation sat at 1.4% when President Joe Biden took office in January 2021, rising steadily and peaking at 9.1% in June 2022, only coming back below 3% in July, according to data compiled by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
“Obviously I can’t continue to absorb it,” Donahue told Blackburn, referencing the increased cost of doing business. “We have to increase our prices and, because of inflation, this will actually be the first year since my…