Republicans risk undercutting their midterm affordability messaging as President Donald Trump’s foreign policy agenda overshadows domestic politics and voters face broader economic warning signs.
The GOP-controlled Congress is floating more money for Trump’s Iran war, a move that could alienate voters’ cost-of-living concerns ahead of the November elections in the face of rising prices at the pump from Trump’s Middle East military operations, which a majority of Americans disapprove of, and on the heels of a dismal February economic report with 92,000 jobs lost.
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