Trump: Affordability a "Democrat scam"

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President Donald Trump blasted Democrats over their affordability focus in a Cabinet meeting on Tuesday, saying their policies brought historic inflation that he is working to bring down and continues to concern Americans.

"The word affordability is a Democrat scam," Trump said. "They say it and then they go into the next subject and everyone thinks, ‘oh, they had lower prices.’ No, they had the worst inflation in the history of our country."

Trump said that since January, the administration has "stopped inflation in its tracks" and acknowledged that "there is still more to do" as inflation is "going to down a little bit further." He also pointed to lower gas prices and mortgage rates, as well as cheaper food items like eggs.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics' consumer price index (CPI) showed that inflation was 3% in January when Trump returned to the White House, and declined to 2.3% in April – which was the lowest level since March 2021.

However, inflation has rebounded in recent months and returned to 3% in September, the last month for which data was published. 

The inflation rebound coincides with the Trump administration's rollout of higher tariffs, as U.S. importers deal with the higher costs from import taxes by passing some of those costs on to consumers through higher prices.

Source: https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/trump-calls-affordability-a-democrat-scam-inflation-concerns-persist-nationwide

 

[Ladle Ghoulash 53,971]

Can’t wait to put this up in the yard

[Lord Mayhem 3,448]

So that's why Democrats swept up the midterm elections...Republicans made every aspect of American life more expensive yet it's somehow Democrats at fault??? 

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History has shown telling people "it's fine" when it isn't will gut your numbers.

Just look at Biden. His pride made him walk out to podium after podium to tell the people how good his administration is doing the job.

And like, sure, we were on the right track but when people are having trouble making ends meet that is not what they wanna hear  

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It does seem to be true that the worst times of inflation in america were during democrat leadership, but also a very bad point under Gerald Ford