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Download official Senate Record PDFReturn to issue contextMr. SCHUMER. Mr. President, well, every day, Americans see headlines about rising prices.
Just this week, The Economist said: “America faces another grocery- price shock.”
CNN: “America is in for yet another long spell of price pain.”
PBS News: “Iran war hits home as gasoline prices fuel significant U.S. inflation jump.”
“fake news,” but Americans don't need to see the headlines to know we are in an affordability crisis. Americans feel the crushing weight of higher costs caused by Trump's disastrous war and failed economic policies every time they walk through the grocery aisle and step up to the gas pump.
from Trump and congressional Republicans to lower costs. In fact, they see the opposite.
The other day, Trump said:
I don't think about Americans' financial situation. I don't
think about [anyone].
Trump's clueless comments make my blood boil. “I don't think about [anyone]?” They make Americans' blood boil. Americans can't understand how a President can be so cold, so callous, and so proud of it.
pump, they are paying over $4.50 for a gallon of gasoline—up more than $1.50 since Trump started this war.
grocery store got even more expensive, with food prices going up in April more than in any month in the past 4 years.
Donald Trump doesn't think about you, America.
Trump is really wrong when he says he doesn't think about anyone. He thinks about himself and only himself, as his past comments have shown.
bankroll his $1 billion ballroom. If “ballroom Republicans” won't think about the economic suffering of the American people, then they had better start thinking long and hard about their own political futures.