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Daniela Altimari

As GOP senators grapple with cost concerns, Democrats see opening

Mississippi Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith appeared to downplay a question about rising beef prices last month by saying Americans have “so many proteins to choose from.”

Fellow Republican Sen. Jon Husted of Ohio told a conservative podcaster last week that people living in poverty lack the experience to handle the “real world.”

And Kansas GOP Sen. Roger Marshall said on CNN that Americans have to accept the spiking cost of gas as one of the “sacrifices” of the ongoing conflict in the Middle East.

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