President Donald Trump will tell you that affordability is a “dead” issue, but the slate of economic proposals he has put forward in recent days begs to differ.

Democrats, including New York Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani, parlayed a campaign focus on rising prices into big-time wins in last week’s elections. The messaging ran directly contrary to the president’s own claims that his policies are engineering a new “golden age” of American economic dominance.