President Donald Trump is scrambling to develop a plan and message on still-high prices after the White House appeared caught off guard by how the affordability issue helped drive Republican losses last Tuesday.
Trump appeared defensive on the matter last week, blaming GOP candidates and lawmakers for talking too little about how to make the cost of everything, from groceries to utility bills to medical care, more affordable. Democratic lawmakers have long contended that the president has done nothing to make things cheaper since he returned to office in January.
In an interview with Fox News on Wednesday, Trump suggested “affordability” was a new political buzzword invented by Democrats: “They have this new word called ‘affordability,’ and [Republicans] don’t talk about it enough. The Democrats did.”
