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Trump bizarrely calls groceries ‘old fashioned’ when confronted over high costs: ‘We’ve got prices way down’

After Republicans suffered major losses in Tuesday night’s general elections up and down the ballot, President Donald Trump is now seizing on the use of certain vocabulary related to the economy to try to turn the tables. When asked about the election results, in which Democrats dominated his party, Trump appeared to suggest Republicans performed poorly because they didn’t talk enough about one word: affordability. “They have this new word called affordability, and [Republicans] don’t talk about it enough. The […]

todayNovember 7, 2025

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‘Nothing will stop me’: Defiant Trump says voters ‘signed up’ for tariffs amid rising costs and economic slump

President Donald Trump is defiant as he marks more than 100 days in office amid frustrations over continued high costs and growing concerns about the health of the U.S. economy. During a recent interview with ABC News, President Trump was pressed on Americans feeling “anxiety” over higher costs due to his tariff policies. The businessman and 47th president of the United States disagreed that Americans who supported him in the 2024 election didn’t “sign up” for it. “Well, they did […]

todayApril 30, 2025

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‘Bait and switch’: Rep. Hakeem Jeffries calls out Republicans for breaking promise to lower costs

House of Representatives Minority Leader Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., blasted Republicans for not keeping their promise to voters who elected President Donald Trump and gave his party full control of Congress to address the high cost of living. During a House floor speech on Monday, Congressman Jeffries chastised his GOP colleagues for not focusing their first weeks in the new 119th Congress on what they promised would be their focus if voters gave Republicans power in Washington, D.C. “House Democrats […]

todayFebruary 11, 2025

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Costs of everything: Does America thingk Trump can lower costs?

WASHINGTON (AP) — Worries about everyday expenses helped return President-elect Donald Trump to the White House. But with his second term quickly approaching, many U.S. adults are skeptical about his ability to bring down costs. Only about 2 in 10 Americans are “extremely” or “very” confident that Trump will be able to make progress on lowering the cost of groceries, housing or health care this year, according to a survey from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research, while about 2 in […]

todayJanuary 18, 2025

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Donald Trump must be protected at all costs

Editor’s note: The following article is an op-ed, and the views expressed are the author’s own. Read more opinions on theGrio. “I got this,” I said, lying through my teeth. I could feel my sisters’, cousins’ and friends’ sense of imminent doom as we approached the rendezvous point for my hastily scheduled after-school showdown with Tony Trimble, Carolina Elementary’s top-ranked, undefeated bully. They had a legitimate cause for concern. Not only was Tony “the Troublemaker” bigger, stronger and older than […]

todayJuly 18, 2024

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Medicaid offices target dead people’s homes to recoup health costs

WASHINGTON (AP) — As Salvatore LoGrande fought cancer and all the pain that came with it, his daughters promised to keep him in the white, pitched roof house he worked so hard to buy all those decades ago. So, Sandy LoGrande thought it was a mistake when, a year after her father’s death, Massachusetts billed her $177,000 for her father’s Medicaid expenses and threatened to sue for his home if she didn’t pay up quickly. “The home was everything,” to […]

todayMarch 17, 2024 1