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President Joe Biden’s 30 year-high inflation has caused Dollar Tree to raise prices by 25 percent on the majority of its products, the company announced Tuesday.

Most Americans do not believe the Biden Administration is doing enough to address the supply chain crisis, a Rasmussen Reports survey released Friday found.

Several trucking and retail trade associations are suing the Biden administration in the hopes of overturning its federal vaccine mandate.

A record 164 cargo ships on Wednesday were reportedly waiting off California’s coast to unload goods as President Biden’s supply chain crisis persists.

California business coalitions and Democratic state legislators recently sent dueling letters to Gov. Gavin Newsom, arguing over proposed solutions to the cargo crisis that has clogged local ports and that is holding up supply chains nationwide.

The trucking industry warned President Biden’s vaccine mandate could terminate 37 percent of drivers during the supply chain crisis, the Washington Examiner reported Monday. 

Nearly 160 ships on Friday are reportedly waiting outside Long Beach and Los Angeles port complex to unload goods, Bloomberg reported. 

The American Trucking Associations (ATA) are reportedly weighing whether to cancel government contracts rather than firing employees over President Biden’s vaccine mandate set to take effect in December. Such a decision to cancel government contracts would further increase the nation’s supply chain crisis.

Several states are looking at Christmas tree shortages ahead of this year’s holiday season, according to reports.

A labor union is struggling to clear backlogged ports in California because too few cranes are available to move containers from ships to trucks, Business Insider reported Thursday. Yet the labor union, International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU), has opposed upgrading port technology to improve efficiency.

There’s nothing transitory about this.

Thanksgiving of 2021 may “be the most expensive meal in the history of the holiday,” the New York Times wrote Monday about inflationary prices American families will absorb to celebrate the holiday first commemorated by the Pilgrims in 1621.

California Port of Los Angeles and Long Beach are set to fine ocean carriers November 1 for remaining docked at terminals beyond the allotted time.

A California longshoreman, who works at California’s San Pedro Bay Port Complex, reportedly said the labor unions are exasperating the supply chain crisis.

Mark Willis, host of SiriusXM’s Road Dog Trucking News, said vaccine mandates will worsen a national shortage of about 80,000 truck drivers.

Forty-five percent of small businesses throughout the nation are facing President Biden’s supply chain crisis, ABC News reported Monday on the U.S. Census Small Business Pulse Survey.

Russian-backed hackers reportedly targeted President Biden’s supply chain crisis as an opportunity to further derail the U.S. economy, Microsoft revealed Sunday. The White House has downplayed the attack on 609 companies 22,868 times as “unsophisticated.” A total of fourteen companies believe they have been hacked.  

Liberal media outlets are using the current supply-chain crisis and fears of inflation to push an anti-consumption, anti-growth ethic that they believe is better for human civilization and for the planet.

President Biden’s 11-point drop in averaged approval ratings over his first three quarters in office marks the most significant decline in approval during the same point in any presidency since 1953, according to Gallup.

Appearing Friday on the Fox Business Network’s Mornings with Maria, former McDonald’s USA CEO Ed Rensi said President Joe Biden’s policies have “dramatically” impacted the supply chain crisis and rising inflation facing the U.S. 

Inflation is expected to accelerate into 2022, increasing the cost of everyday consumer goods for American workers and families, Unilever predicted Thursday. 

A record 79 ships were anchored off the Port of Long Beach as of Thursday, after the combined Long Beach-Los Angeles total surpassed 100 earlier this week — and as the pace of offloading ships slowed down, rather than accelerating.

All-cargo air shipping companies this week warned President Biden the vaccine mandate will wreak havoc on the supply chain by increasing worker shortages across the industry, Politico reported Thursday.

Most Americans expect grocery prices to continue to rise over the next year and admit that the rising prices have caused them to change their eating habits, a Rasmussen Reports survey released Thursday found.

More than 150 House Republicans on Tuesday blamed President Joe Biden for “exacerbating” the supply chain crisis by pushing welfare “spending and taxation legislation.”

The Federal Reserve said Wednesday vaccine mandates hurting economic employment, which has resulted in exasperating President Biden’s supply chain crisis. 

Shipping costs are surging around the globe, causing the price of sending a container from Asia to the West Coast to increase many times over.

A senior client partner at Korn Ferry on Wednesday warned toilet paper shortages are set to “hit homes” as they did in 2020.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed an executive order on Wednesday that, he claims, will address the cargo crisis at Los Angeles and Long Beach ports, which saw a record 100 ships at anchor Tuesday and has caused a nationwide supply shock.

Most Americans say they have been “personally” affected by supply chain shortages when attempting to buy basic consumer goods, a Convention of States Action/Trafalgar Group survey released Wednesday found. 

Lunches for school children on Wednesday are reportedly being impacted throughout the nation by President Biden’s supply chain crisis, forcing children conserve forks and spoons at schools. 

Food shortages were reported to be spiking across the country Tuesday as President Joe Biden struggles to resolve the supply chain crises crippling the nation.

President Joe Biden’s approval rating continues to fall, with 37 percent of Americans approving the job he is doing, according to a Quinnipiac poll released on Tuesday.

After spending weeks on ships stuck off the coast of the United States, shipping containers are reportedly being dumped in nearby neighborhoods.

The White House is reportedly weighing whether to deploy the National Guard to confront the ever growing supply chain crisis while Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg has been on paternity leave since mid-August. 

Jen Psaki was asked by a New York Times reporter about the shipping delays for products like dishwashers, furniture, and treadmills and why Biden waited to address to known issues.