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Americans are in a cost-of-living crisis, and in this month’s Democratic landslide elections, they sent President Trump a wake-up call. Utility rates are up 11% since he took office, health care premiums are about to surge for millions — and just as grocery prices were finally stabilizing after pandemic inflation, Trump’s tariffs have driven them up again.
But you wouldn’t know it by watching our president, who has barely uttered a word about this since he became president, apparently lost in a gold-plated version of the White House bubble that traps so many presidents.
