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.@RepRobertGarcia: In August 2024, Trump promised to cut energy and electrical prices by 50% within 12 to 18 months. Did that happen?
@ENPancotti: No. In fact, in his first year in office, electricity prices rose by 10%.
GARCIA: What about the cost of new homes? In September
Higher gas prices. Higher grocery bills. Now, a 20% jump in the cost of school supplies.
@gbenga_ajilore explains how families are being hit from every angle this summer: travel, back-to-school season, higher grocery & health care costs from cuts to food assistance & Medicaid.
"Everything the President has done has driven up the price of housing."
That's our @ENPancotti in front of the @OversightDems explaining how all the president's broken promises have made housing even more unaffordable for working families.
While seniors struggle to survive, Trump calls the affordability crisis a "hoax" and enriches his family by billions of dollars. On Friday at 1:30 PM ET, Oversight Dems will hold a hearing in Nevada on how Trump's economy is failing poor, elderly, and working-class Americans.
America’s economic outlook just got a lot more concerning – especially if you’re a young person in America.
@FreeFactsOrg asked 10 policy experts – including our @BreyonWilliams – about what the national debt means for the next generation & why they should care.
Consumer sentiment fell to 51.7 in August, the worst August reading on record.
That’s down 6.3% in just one month and nearly 28% since Trump took office.
As I told @mylesmccormick_, there are increasingly two economies in the US: Those living in the stock market, and those clocking in for a shift everyday.
If you feel like your wages aren't keeping up, that's because they're not.
Mr. Gates, do we have a paper for you
It's actually no one's job to build transmission at large economies of scale across the continent. I think @Groundwork @grayson_flood have ideas
We've never had gas prices this high this late in the year, our @AlexSJacquez tells @MSNOWNews.
And prices won't go down anytime soon as long as Trump's war with Iran drags on.
Trump's trade war with Canada means prices aren't falling anytime soon.
"There are strategic ways to use tariffs to crack down on unfair trade practices, but going back & forth with Canada, which is a vital partner, is really not the way to do that," @ENPancotti told @HuffPost.
Awesome! Finally, action from POTUS to lower prices and increase wages.
Since 2019, corporate profits have grown 52 percent.
Wages have grown 12 percent.
Read that back.
This is what a rigged economy looks like.
[Chart by @groundwork]
