Deepa Shivaram

I cover voting.

And NPR's chief economics correspondent, Scott Horsley, is also with us.

Hi, Scott.

Great to have you.

And the little one.

Yes, exactly.

So today we are digging into affordability, which is something that we know is something that voters care a lot about.

And we're also going to be talking about Trump's ongoing feud with Fed Chair Jerome Powell.

But I do want to start with today's news.

President Trump is slated to give a speech in Detroit that's focused on his economic message.

What more can you tell us, Deepa?

Which is also notable because I feel like the economy is one of those things that even at times when people were mad about Trump, about everything else, the economy has always been something that voters generally trusted him on.

Oh, 100 percent.

Because of his business acumen.

Yeah.

What does the data say, Scott, about how the economy actually is right now?

I definitely I had that moment yesterday.

I opened up my gas bill and I was like, whoa, OK, that's where we're at right now.

Well, it's so interesting now this speech, Deepa, in Detroit from President Trump.

I'm curious about how he's thinking about this, because after the off-year elections that Democrats performed very well in November, I feel like that was kind of this blinking sign that said voters still really care about this affordability idea.