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As inflation continues to climb, President Joe Biden's approval rating fell below 40% last month; however, Sen. Raphael Warnock is still giving the president his seal of approval.

According to FiveThirtyEight's updated tally of how often every member of the Senate votes with or against the President, Warnock, D-Ga., votes in line with Biden 96.2% of the time.

"Biden's average approval rating 1.5 years in is the lowest of any president in Gallup poll's 74-year history," Addison Smith, One America News Network host, said in an Aug. 4 post on Twitter.

With inflation and high prices at the forefront of Americans' minds, only 38% approve of the job Biden is doing as of July 29, according to Gallup's July survey. Among independent voters, only 31% approve. With this, a total 59% of Americans disapprove of Biden's performance, which is the highest rate of disapproval for him to date.

During the president's sixth quarter in office, spanning April 20-July 19, an average of 40% of Americans approved of the job he was doing as president. While Biden’s approval has reached a record low, Gallup reports no president elected to his first term has had a lower sixth-quarter average than Biden did, although Jimmy Carter's and Donald Trump's ratings were only slightly better at 42%.

The Inflation Reduction Act of 2022, a bill proposed by Sens. Joe Manchin, D-W.V., and Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., recently passed the Senate in a 51-50 vote. According to the New York Post, the legislation addresses priorities related to climate change and healthcare and includes $430 billion in new government spending. 

According to SmartAsset, economists say inflation is largely tied to increased federal government spending. 

Leaders such as Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., say the Inflation Reduction Act is not going to bring down inflation and will actually worsen the recession that some say we're currently in, as reported by Fox News.