The president says he is focused on "making America affordable again", as cost of living becomes a campaign issue.

President Donald Trump told a campaign-style rally that consumer prices are falling “tremendously” as he sought to allay voter anxiety about the US cost of living.

In a speech at a casino in the battleground state of Pennsylvania, the president told supporters he had “no higher priority than making America affordable again”.

But while gas and egg prices have fallen, other food is more expensive and Americans remain unhappy about the cost of housing, childcare and healthcare.

But at one point in his remarks, the Republican president again portrayed concerns about affordability as a Democratic “hoax”.

The White House blames Biden and US central bank interest rates for the lingering economic pain.

  • CmdrShepard49@sh.itjust.works
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    2 days ago

    IE Biden basically went publicly patting himself on the back of how the US had a lower inflation than most other countries durring the covid spree. but he phrased it in a way that was regularly interpreted as “I solved inflation… you feeling like everything is falling apart is on you.”

    There was also the fact that we had massive inflation prior to it dropping back down to normal levels but he pretended like low/normal inflation this past quarter negates the previously high inflation, as if things costing twice as much today as they did a couple years prior doesn’t matter because “things only went up an additional 3% last quarter so what are you complaining about?”