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Official title: Economy (Executive Session)
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June 17, 2026
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Download official Senate Record PDFReturn to issue contextMr. President, on a separate topic, last week, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported and confirmed what Americans already knew: Inflation is at a 3-year high—marking the second straight month inflation has outpaced wage growth. Rising energy costs are crushing American families, and their dollar simply doesn't stretch as far anymore. It is a lose-lose scenario.
President's approval rating has hit an alltime low for his second term. It is no wonder why. In my home State of Illinois, the average household has had to spend $3,400 more on goods and services during President Trump's second term, despite the President's campaign pledge to lower costs on day one—another broken promise. That is according to a new report released by the Joint Economic Committee.
the President's second term has transpired. Illinois families, on average, have spent $815 more than in a previous similar period on housing costs, like rent and mortgage payments, and the like; $310 more for groceries than in President Trump's first year, compared to 2024; and more than $350 more on gasoline since the start of the Iran war, a little over 100 days ago.
What was the President's official response? “I love the inflation,” the President said.
deportation funding bill, Senate Democrats offered numerous amendments to address this affordability crisis, which the President has barely acknowledged. Senate Democrats offered a proposal that would have funded the largest Federal grant program to create more affordable housing. We put forth a measure that would investigate health insurance companies that are denying patients the care they need. And we gave Republicans a chance to join us in ending—for good—the President's anti-weaponization slush fund of taxpayer dollars to cop beaters from January 6.
us. When will the Republican Party join the Democrats in the Senate to provide relief to struggling families in their own home States? Only time will tell. Senate Democrats will continue to put forward legislation to help families with the rising costs of gasoline, groceries, housing, and child and healthcare. We will put Republicans on record. I hope they will join us in a bipartisan effort to give Americans real relief.
I yield the floor.
The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Sheehy). The Senator from Rhode Island.