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On June 11, 2026, with inflation rising to 4.2 percent, the highest level in three years, Senator Tim Scott went on Fox Business and called it good news.

“We saw this last report is that inflation ticked up to 4.2 percent, highest in three years,” Scott said. “Last month it was 3.8, the month before that was 3.3. The trend is not going in the right direction.” Then he kept talking. “But one of the things it signals is resiliency in our economy, which is in fact good news. Because of Donald Trump, we have more Americans with more money in their pockets.”

He acknowledged the trend was bad. Then he called it good.

This is not a slip of the tongue. This is the job.

Tim Scott chairs the Senate Banking Committee. He now also chairs the National Republican Senatorial Committee, leading the party’s campaign strategy heading into the 2026 midterms. He has branded this year the “year of affordability,” promising Americans relief from rising costs.

Inflation rose for three straight months. Rent, groceries, and gas climbed alongside it. And the senator responsible for messaging his party’s economic record told voters that getting worse, slower, was reason for optimism.

Black families are not buffered from this. Higher costs hit households with less savings cushion hardest, and Black households carry less generational wealth to absorb the difference. When the price of groceries and rent rises, it is not abstract. It is the difference between a paid bill and a missed one.

Scott did not propose a policy to address the rising costs he confirmed were rising. He reframed them as a feature of a healthy economy.

This is what proximity to power does when accountability is optional. It does not require Tim Scott to fix the problem. It only requires him to describe it in a way that makes the problem easier to defend.

Black faces in high spaces are not coming to save you.

Tim Scott had the data in front of him. He chose the spin instead.

This is part of our Black Faces in High Spaces series, where we document Black people who have proximity to power but use it to uphold systems that harm Black communities. Follow for the next post in this series.

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September 26, 2026. Salt Lake City.

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