Sarah McCammon / Tamara Keith / Domenico Montanaro (primary hosts; multi-voice label primarily Sarah McCammon)

They get to know whether or not they can afford Christmas presents for their family or if it seems like it's a lot harder to do so.

They know whether or not they can go and afford a house based on the market that they live in.

They know what interest rates look like.

It's not something that Trump can just power of positive thinking his way through here to be able to say, I say it is, therefore it is.

People know what their costs actually are.

And it's hard to message on affordability when people feel like it's harder for them to afford things.

And if this sounds like a conversation we could have had

in 2022 and 2023 about President Biden, you're not nuts.

I mean, it's something that we certainly heard.

The Biden administration irritated about how they saw a stronger economy that was seeing GDP growth and recovering after the pandemic try to attack this idea of affordability by also saying, you know, the economy is actually strong.

And that wasn't something that resonated with voters.

And now Trump is stuck in this vice as well.

Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene, a Republican from Georgia, suddenly finding herself publicly disagreeing with President Trump on a semi-regular basis.

It's a point she made on The Sean Spicer Show earlier this week.

Gaslighting the people and trying to tell them that prices have come down is not helping.

It's actually infuriating people.

because people know what they're paying at the grocery store.

They know what they're paying for their kids' clothes and school supplies.

They know what they're paying for their electricity bills.

So, Tam, this issue does not seem to be going anywhere anytime soon.