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Mr. SCHUMER. Mr. President, this morning's inflation numbers reaffirm what the American people already know: Trumpflation is getting worse and worse, with no end in sight. Trumpflation hit 4.2 percent last month, a 3-year high. Another month of Trump's illegal Iran war, another month of Trump's tariffs, another month of Republican control of Congress, and what does America get? A new alltime high for Trumpflation.
Just about everything is getting more expensive. In the past year, the price of fresh produce has gone up 6 percent; meat, 7.6; electricity, 6; airfare, 26.7; and gasoline by a staggering 45-percent increase.
Is it any wonder that polling this week found that 70 percent--70 percent--of American voters disapprove of Trump's handling of the cost of living? That number includes a whole lot of Republicans.
Donald Trump promised to lower costs on day one, but nearly 17 months since taking office, he and his MAGA majorities in Congress haven't lifted a finger to lower Americans' costs.
But let's be clear. Republicans aren't just failing to address the affordability crisis; they are making it worse--actively making it worse. Republicans are driving up costs with their expensive tariff tax, with their disastrous war with Iran that is leading to recordbreaking gas prices, with their trillion-dollar cut to healthcare, and with the rest of this radical, hard-right agenda that so misserves the American people.
Trump's tariffs are costing American families more than $1,700 a year on average. American families have had to pay an additional $750 on average during these past few months just to meet skyrocketing costs of gasoline because of the Iran war.
Instead of focusing on helping Americans weather this dire financial moment, Republicans are helping Donald Trump get even richer. As Americans' costs go up, Donald Trump keeps putting his hand into the till to make money for himself and his family.
Republicans are more concerned with Trump's golden ballroom than with helping Americans afford housing. Republicans would rather give taxpayer-funded payouts to Trump and his cronies through his MAGA slush fund than help Americans put food on the table. Republicans continue to fight for Trump and his corruption rather than lower costs for working families.
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