国家经济委员会（NEC）主任凯文·哈塞特周三表示，他看到最新通胀报告中有“一堆好消息”，该报告显示9月份价格同比上涨3.7%。
Kevin Hassett, the director of the National Economic Council (NEC), said Wednesday he sees a “bunch of good news” in the latest inflation report, which measured prices as up 3.7 percent year-over-year in September.
哈塞特在白宫接受NewsNation记者汉娜·布兰特采访时表示，最新消费者价格指数（CPI）显示“能源价格激增”，他将其视为“暂时的”。根据劳工统计局（BLS）的数据，年度通胀率从8月的3.4%上升至9月的3.7%。能源价格也从8月到9月飙升5.2%，同比上涨20.4%。“但报告中也有很多好消息，”哈塞特对布兰特说。
Speaking to NewsNation’s Hannah Brandt at the White House, Hassett said the latest consumer price index (CPI) shows a “surge in energy prices,” which he deemed “temporary.”Annual inflation rose from 3.4 percent in August to 3.7 percent last month, according to data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). Energy prices also spiked by 5.2 percent from August to September, and were up by 20.4 percent year-over-year. “But there’s a whole bunch of good news in the report,” Hassett told Brandt.
NEC主任指出，食品价格在8月到9月期间保持稳定，而处方药价格下降了1.2%。
The NEC director noted that food prices held steady from August to September, while the price of prescription drugs fell by 1.2 percent.
特朗普总统一直在宣传其政府推出的面向消费者的药品平台TrumpRx，该平台今年早些时候推出。
President Trump has touted his administration’s direct-to-consumer drug platform, TrumpRx, which launched earlier this year.
“我预计，我们在降低食品价格和药品价格方面所做的一切努力的力度将持续推动前进，”哈塞特说道。
“My expectation is that the strength of all the things that we’ve been doing in terms of getting food prices down and getting drug prices down, that strength is going to motor through,” Hassett remarked.
9月份的CPI通胀率达到自5月以来的最高点，当时价格同比上涨4.2%。核心年度通胀率（不包括更易波动的食品和能源价格）也为2.6%，而8月为2.4%。
CPI inflation in September reached its highest point since May, when prices were up 4.2 percent year-over-year. Core annual inflation, which does not include more volatile food and energy prices, was also 2.6 percent last month — up from 2.4 percent in August.
劳工统计局报告称，汽油价格月环比上涨9.1%，占当月整体价格涨幅的一半以上。在持续的伊朗战争背景下，汽油和柴油的平均价格分别超过每加仑4美元和6美元。
The 9.1-percent monthly increase in gas prices accounted for more than a half of the monthly rise in prices, the BLS reported. Gas and diesel cost more than $4 and $6 per gallon on average, respectively, amid the ongoing Iran war.
白宫发言人马修·米德尔顿告诉NewsNation，特朗普“一直明确表示伊朗战争带来的临时中断”。
Matthew Middleton, a spokesman for the White House, told NewsNation that Trump “has always been clear about temporary disruptions” from the Iran war.
特朗普认为，泵油价格上涨是值得的，因为这有助于美国军队消除伊朗的核能力。
Trump has argued higher prices at the pump are worth it for the U.S. military to eliminate Iran’s nuclear capabilities.
“虽然民主党假装关心‘可负担性’，但本届政府已经取得了切实成效，使美国家庭的生活更加可负担，”米德尔顿补充道，她提到了《一揽子宏伟法案》以及特朗普时期的就业增长。
“While Democrats pretend to care about ‘affordability’ this administration has delivered tangible wins to make life more affordable for American families,” Middleton added, referencing the One Big Beautiful Bill Act and job growth under Trump.
哈塞特也指责拜登政府，告诉布兰特，由于前总统的政策，美国人“状况更糟”。
Hassett also blamed the Biden administration, telling Brandt that Americans “were worse off” due to the former president’s policies.
但2024年12月，即拜登任职的最后一个完整月份，通胀率为2.9%。通胀在2022年6月达到40年来最高点，达到9.1%，这是根据CPI衡量的。
But inflation in December 2024, Biden’s final full month in office, was 2.9 percent. Inflation reached a 40-year high in June 2022, reaching 9.1 percent, as measured by the CPI.
劳工统计局报告称，上月实际平均时薪较8月下降了0.5%，因为通胀超过了工资增长。
Real average hourly earnings last month were down 0.5 percent from August, the BLS reported, as inflation outpaced wage growth.
海瑟·朗，海军联邦信用合作社的首席经济学家，周三表示，最新的通胀数据是“痛苦的”，表明通胀在经济中“比经济学家所认为的更为广泛和根深蒂固”。
Heather Long, the chief economist at Navy Federal Credit Union, said Wednesday the latest inflation data was “painful” and shows inflation is “a lot more broad-based and entrenched” in the economy than what economists thought.
“这是一份全方位艰难的报告，”朗对《国会山报》说。“你越深入细节，情况就越令人担忧。”
“It was a tough report all around,” Long told The Hill. “The more that you look through the details, the more troubling it became.”