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The defining promise of Donald Trump's 2024 campaign was lower costs on the “first day.” He broke it. The first six months of this administration have been marked by increasingly high prices.
Republicans in Congress would be wise to remember that voters are never faster to fire elected officials than when they break a central promise. It is this congress that will be on the ticket next year, not Donald Trump.
The promises of the campaign sounded too good to be true, because they were. Trump promised to “end” inflation, reduce energy costs “to half,” make medical care more affordable and that Americans would see “drastic price reductions” and cheaper edible.
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For most swing voters, the lowest costs were the goal of voting for those who are now in power. They had policies that would improve their lives, they would not make them more difficult. As the surveys show, the anger is deep for a president and the Congress that are destroying the Social Security Network, canceling special favors to their rich friends and that personally benefits from a high position.
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The Americans who work are talking against policies that make life more expensive. And the candidates who run in 2025 and 2026 have the duty to listen.
We help to lead the bipartisan cost coalition, which exists to show how Washington's economic agenda is making the American dream insequible. The most credible voices of this fight are not in Washington; They are our neighbors who are paying more and getting less. The working families of the United States, veterans, small businesses and people in faith, are raising to tell the real story.
Take the Trump Washington's policy solution, the “great and beautiful bill”, which increases costs. Their inflation taxes for the rich mean to gut the security network and kick 10 million beneficiaries of Medicaid of their health insurance.
When Allison Harris's daughter was diagnosed with cancer, steep medical invoices would have bankrupt her family even with private insurance coverage. The Michigan Medicaid program helped cover costs. She told her local news station that when the “big and beautiful bill was signed,” felt “fear and disgust. Because you never know until something like this cancer trip happens, exactly how much it costs things.”
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His daughter, Kendall Williams, added: “I feel that the fact that they even signed it only shows how some adults have no common sense.”
Common sense is difficult to find in Washington, especially when it comes to the economic whip of general tariffs that are feeding a new wave of inflation.
The price of ground meat is in a record and more Americans are using Buy Now, they pay later to affordable. Great retailers like Wal-Mart and Amazon have already increased prices. And now Proctor and Gamble says that tariffs will increase prices in common domestic products from the tidal detergent to Luv diapers.
“It is quite difficult to buy the things that my family needs. Increasing that cost will make it more difficult,” said Ohian Charlene Monoskie to his local news.
They are not just families. Difficult options face small businesses: Eat the prices of their customers.
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After the teaching of decades in the Penylvania schools, Jamie Pikulsky opened the Café from Scratch Uniontown, where he tries to keep his prices affordable to compete with larger chains. But the tariffs mean that it is paying $ 600 more a month for the coffee to which it serves its customers. She says: “I don't know from any small business at this time that is thriving. It is difficult in all areas.”
Instead of ending inflation “immediately”, as Trump promised the country in the Republican National Convention last summer, its policies have worsened inflation. And more pain could be on the way with the last round of rates, after the failed negotiations did not generate 90 agreements in 90 days.
Both parties must fight against the Washington agenda that costs the costs.
The most chosen Republicans need to think for themselves. Senator Thom Tillis, RN.C., had the guts to choose the people of North Carolina over the “great and beautiful bill.” Tillis spoke on the floor of the Senate, asking his colleagues: “What do I tell 663,000 people in two or three years when President Trump breaks his promise by expelling them from Medicaid because the financing is not there?” Tillis knew that expelling people from their health insurance changes costs to all of us.
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And Democrats must demonstrate that they are listening to workers, relentlessly focusing on reducing costs and growing the economy.
The former governor of North Carolina, Roy Cooper, who runs to happen to Tillis, is showing the way by calling “politicians in DC [who] They are running our debt, starting our medical attention, does not respect our veterans, reducing aid to the poor and even putting Medicare and Social Security, only to grant tax exemptions to billionaires. ”
So is Senator Elissa Slotkin of Michigan, who says: “The cost of living in the economy is the problem of driving for the average person. It is simply not always promoting the conversation between political elites.”
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That is disconnection.
Whatever the White House billionaire, the American people are not stupid. They know they are paying more and getting less. They say it today and will say it again next year, when they will again launch the votes for whom he leads the next congress.
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