Don Gagne

Well, poll after poll shows Americans are worried about inflation and affordability.

As a result, Trump's approval ratings on the economy give him very low scores in that area.

People are unhappy about the cost of a grocery store visit.

about affording daycare and on and on.

And they see inflation as a big worry.

But the president is, as we heard, taking a hard line, denying that affordability is anything other than a hoax that Democrats are pushing as a political issue.

So he describes one economy.

Americans describe a completely different place.

It is on certain issues, including this one.

Many questions have been raised regarding these strikes on alleged drug boats off the coast of Venezuela, particularly the one in September where a second strike killed two survivors of the initial attack.

It's still just a small number of Republicans pushing back and demanding more answers.

But still, there are some, and I should underscore here that these requirements now to share the video recordings were actually just one piece of that major defense funding bill, and that bill passed by a wide margin.

We've seen some GOP pushback on redistricting elsewhere as well, but this is a deep red state.

Republicans hold seven of the state's nine congressional seats.

The president wanted them to redraw the district lines to set up a potential clean sweep of all nine in next year's elections.

But lawmakers looked at the map and said, look, we just did this four years ago.

So it is a setback for the president.

NPR's Don Gagne.

Don, thanks.

All right.