Trump’s affordability conundrum

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President Donald Trump has belatedly recognized the threat the lingering aftershocks of inflation pose to his second term and Republican congressional majorities, but it won’t be easy to wrest control of the affordability narrative back from the Democrats.

Trump devoted a pre-Christmas prime-time address from the White House to the most important issue of next year’s midterm elections as he and Vice President JD Vance embarked on a multistate affordability tour.

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