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They can't press a button and instantly fix it, but they can influence it (most notably, both raising taxes and cutting spending would put downward pressure on inflation; there are also other things the president can do to affect it a bit like reducing tariffs). Part of the reason inflation got this bad was that in retrospect the ARP was probably too big, though of course if they had undershot instead of overshot we could have had a recession instead which would have been worse.