"It is actions taken by the federal government—including the Biden administration, the Trump administration, Congress and the Federal Reserve—that have landed us in our present inflationary mess."

In other words, it is the fault of the American voter, right and left, for voting for leaders who haven't greatly cared about inflation because the voters haven't. Now both sides care a bit more, and both are prescribing solutions that ... just happen to equal a shopping list of their favorite policies, with or without inflation. Want to know who caused inflation? There's likely a portrait of the villain in your closest mirror.