The determining promise of Donald Trump’s 2024 campaign was lower costs on ‘day one’. He broke it. The first six months of this administration are characterized by increasingly higher prices.
Republicans in the congress would be wise to remember that voters never dismissed officials faster than if they break a core promise. It is this congress that will be at the mood next year, not Donald Trump.
The promises of the campaign track sounded too good to be true because they were. Trump is committed to “terminating” inflation, reducing the energy costs “in two,” making health care more affordable, and that Americans would see “drastic price reductions” and cheaper groceries.
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For most Swing voters, lower costs were the entire point of votes for those who are now in power. They counted on policy that would improve their lives, they would not make them harder. As polls demonstrate, the anger runs deeply for a president and the congress that pours out the social safety net, unpacking special favors for their rich friends and personally benefits from a high office.
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Working Americans speak out against the policy that makes life more expensive. And candidates performed in 2025 and 2026 have the duty to listen.
We help lead the Bipartisan Cost Coalition, which exists to show how Washington’s economic agenda makes the American dream priceless. The most credible voices in this fight are not in Washington; It is our neighbors who pay more and become less. The working families of America, veterans, small companies and faith people, come up to tell the real story.
Take Trump’s characteristic Washington policy solution, the ‘large, beautiful account’, which increases the costs. Inflatory tax benefits for the rich meaning means the safety net and kicking 10 million medicaid beneficiaries of their health insurance.
When Allison Harris’s daughter was diagnosed with cancer, steep medical accounts would have had their families bankrupt, even with private insurance coverage. Michigan’s Medicaid program helped to cover the costs. She told their local news station that the “big, beautiful bill” was signed, they felt “fear and disgust. Because you never know until something like this cancer journey happens, exactly how many things cost.”
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Her daughter, Kendall Williams, added: “I feel that they even signed it in the law, just shows how some adults have no common sense.”
Common sense is hard to find in Washington, especially when it comes to the economic whiplash of general rates that feed a new wave of inflation.
The price of ground beef is at a record high and more Americans now buy, pay later to pay groceries. Large retailers such as Wal-Mart and Amazon have already increased the prices. And now Proctor and Gamble say that rates will increase prices for ordinary household products, from tidal detergent to the diapers of LUV.
“It’s hard enough to buy the things that my family needs. Increasing those costs will make it harder,” said Ohian Charlene Monoskie to her local news.
They are not just families. Hard choices are confronted with owners of small companies – eat the rates or increase prices for their customers.
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After giving lessons at schools in Pennsylvania for decades, Jamie Pikulsky opened from Nul Uniontown Cafe, where she tries to keep her prices affordable to compete with larger chains. But rates mean that she pays $ 600 more a month for the coffee she serves her customers. She says, “I don’t know a small company that is flowering now. It is difficult across the board.”
Instead of terminating the inflation ‘immediately’, as Trump promised the country at the Republican National Convention last summer, his policy made inflation worse. And more pain can be on the way with the last rating round, after failed negotiations did not deliver 90 deals in 90 days.
Both parties have to fight against the Washington agenda that increases costs.
More chosen Republicans must think for themselves. Senator Thom Tillis, RN.C., had the guts to choose the people of North Carolina above the ‘big, beautiful account’. Tillis spoke on the senate floor and asked his colleagues: “What should I tell 663,000 people in two years or three years when President Trump breaks his promise by pushing them from Medicaid because the financing is not there?” Tillis knew that kicking people from their health insurance is shifting the costs to all of us.
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And Democrats must show that they listen to working people by ruthlessly focusing on reducing costs and growing the economy.
Former North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper, who runs to succeed Tillis, shows the way by calling out politicians in DC [who] If our fault is getting away, weigh our health care, respect our veterans, cut help for the poor and even endanger medicine and social security, simply to give tax benefits to billionaires. ”
For example, Senator Elissa Slotkin of Michigan, who says: “The costs of living in the economy are the driving problem for the average person. It is simply not always the conversation between political elites.”
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That is the disconnection.
Whatever the billionaire in the White House, the American people is not stupid. They know that they pay more and become less. They say it today and they will say it again next year, when they will again throw a ballot papers for those who lead the next congress.
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