GOP lawmakers unhappy with Trump's affordability message: 'You can't call it a hoax'
Source: The Hill
12/11/25 6:00 AM ET
Senate Republicans, unsettled by recent Democratic victories in the off-year elections, want President Trump to do more to respond to the issue of “affordability,” a buzzword Trump recently dismissed as a Democratic “con job” despite polls showing voters view higher costs as a major issue.
Republican lawmakers say they’re glad Trump traveled to Pennsylvania on Tuesday to tout his economic record, but they warn that the White House needs to do more to show voters it is working hard to ease the financial burdens felt by millions of Americans struggling to cope with rising costs.
“You can’t call it a hoax and suggest that people are going to believe it,” Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) said of Trump’s attempts to dispute evidence that affordability has become a major concern for millions of Americans. “What you say matters.” Trump has seemed out of touch at times with voters’ concerns over the economy, a dynamic that plagued his predecessor, former President Biden. Trump told Politico in a recent interview that he would grade the economy as “A-plus-plus-plus-plus-plus.”
Speaking in Pennsylvania on Tuesday, the president argued that “prices are coming down very substantially” and blasted Democratic critics who are hitting him over affordability for pushing a “hoax.” Murkowski suggested those around Trump may be out of touch.
Read more: https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5643398-trump-republicans-affordability-concerns/
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yourself did I confirm 6 worthless maga unitary executive theory assholes judges (you know wanting a king) to the bench to give the orange hair traitor immunity and have this country like it was run by King George....
......from the Espionage Act and now your trying to deflect this shit show with the affordability BS, he tore down the east wing, he is wanting to build a ballroom, he has gutted the Kennedy Center.....and it all being paid for by taxpayer dollars .....................you know the three shell pea game you and him do every time you right wingers get into power..........that what is happening right now...........
I get to spend about $2,000 more on living things........... like food, heat and such ...............because of tariffs, you know that TAX thingy ..............and you..............you people failed in your job description to keep this 34 count fraudster from power and you failed................its that simple.........you created this shit show for ages.................. resign..........JFC............
