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The US consumer price index rose 7.5% last month, a survey found.
The increase was the highest in 40 years, and the price of oil and food, which was particularly hard on the common people, rose sharply, so the White House also started to evolve.
Correspondent Kim Jong-won reports from New York.
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Inflation in the US, which is rising rapidly, rose 7.5% year-on-year once again last month, breaking the record of the highest increase in 40 years since 1982.
It surpassed the 7% increase last month and beat the market's forecast of 7.3%.
Inflation rose 0.6% from the previous month, also exceeding the market consensus.
In particular, as energy, food and housing costs, which are closely related to the lives of ordinary people, rose sharply, the Republican Party, the opposition party, criticized President Biden's policies.
[Mitch McConnell / Republican Senate Minority Leader: Due to the Democrats' policy, inflation surges, and many families and small businesses are forced to swim hard to avoid being sucked into the sea.]
President Biden took the initiative to stabilize prices .
He said he would put all of his energy into it.
[Joe Biden/President of the United States: I'm going to work like a devil to catch gas.
We will do our best to strengthen our supply chain to catch not only oil prices but also other prices.]
The US media analyzed the CPI as a hint that inflation would worsen in the future.
In particular, concerns are growing that inflation will be fixed due to the unresolved supply chain bottlenecks and wage increases due to the shortage of jobs after the corona crisis.