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NYT EDITORIAL BOARD: "Voters should keep in mind Mr. Trump’s failure to keep his campaign promises, his attempts to undermine American democracy and his flagrant corruption."

“My people said, please don’t mention that, sir, because people are paying a little higher.” “I don’t give a damn, I’m gonna say it: We’re making a frickin fortune.” Trump on gas prices, Saturday. It’s now more expensive under him than it was under Biden.

Trump’s own advisers asked him not to bring up gas prices at his rally. He said this instead: “I don’t give a damn, I’m gonna say it: We’re making a frickin fortune.” Gas is $4.29 a gallon. Diesel is $6.35.

Working families feel Trump’s economy every single day, at the gas station, at the grocery store, and at the kitchen table where they sort through the bills. They’re done waiting for him to keep his promise to bring costs down.

The scariest thing about Halloween this year? Trump's economy.  Candy prices are up 15.3%, FOUR TIMES the rate of overall inflation.  Trump and Republicans promised to lower costs. Instead, they're making Halloween more expensive for you.

The average Pennsylvania household has paid more than $5,100 in extra costs since Trump returned to office. $1,100 on housing. $673 on gas. $440 on electricity. $300 on groceries. And more.

Two-thirds of Americans now think Trump is using the presidency to enrich himself. That’s up 10 points in a year. Gallup says perceptions of government corruption in this country are at a multi-decade high.

Trump has said repeatedly that gas prices will “drop like a rock” once the war with Iran ends. The war is in its eighth month. Gas is back above $4 a gallon in Florida. He has been promising the rock for most of a year.

The most corrupt administration in history has spent $2 BILLION on Trump’s vanity projects. Here’s how we could have spent that money to help working people.

Trump promised gas below $2. It’s $4.29. He promised 2% mortgages. They’re 7.40%. He promised to cut electricity bills in half. They’re up 12.5%. He promised cheaper groceries. They’re up. Every one of those is a number you can check today.

A Venezuelan billionaire wanted a pardon. His family offered Trump’s former personal lawyer $50 million to run a company nobody can describe. She started January 1. Weeks later, Trump pardoned him. She says the two are unrelated.

“There are things more important than money to Kansans.” Gas prices in Kansas are up 56%. Diesel is up 82%. What planet is Senator Marshall living on?

Donald Trump can’t run on lower prices, so he’s trying to buy votes instead. Veterans sickened by toxic water on their own bases deserve justice no matter who wins in November. He’s treating help for struggling Americans as a reward for loyalty, and voters see right through it.

Everyone in Trump’s orbit seems to have a price tag, and the people closest to him keep finding new ways to cash in. A pardon, a meeting, a seat near the president: everything is for sale.

NEW REPORT: 214,000 Pennsylvanians dropped their health insurance after premiums surged when Republicans in Congress took away the ACA tax credits. Another 100,144 lost Medicaid or CHIP coverage. That’s more than 314,000 people in one state, in one year.

Trump, September 2024: he would “drive down the rates so you will be able to pay 2% again.” This week: 7.40%. A year ago: 6.27%.

New analysis: Trump’s policies raised taxes and costs for every income group in 2026, except the top 1%.

New analysis of what Trump’s policies cost Americans in 2026: Poorest 20%: $750 more Middle 20%: $1,700 more Everyone up to the 98th percentile: at least $1,000 more Richest 1%: $12,560 less One group came out ahead. It wasn’t you.

FOX NEWS: A majority of voters say inflation is not under control AT ALL.

TRUMP: "I LOVE the inflation." He said this four months ago. Since then: gas at $4.34 a gallon, diesel at $6.28, and today’s report showing prices rising at the fastest pace since May. He loves it.

“I’m strapped every month.” Stephanie Zebrowski, 75, is going to a food bank and keeping her house cold despite her arthritis. Trump promised to end inflation on day one. Twenty-one months later, gas is up 34% and she’s “learning to like beans.”

FOX BUSINESS: The cost is up 67% on a gallon of diesel... For a trucker to fill up their truck, it's costing them $600 more today than it was a year ago.

Trump's crypto company is on its way to becoming a bank. Who regulates it? A Trump appointee that Trump can fire at will. This is corruption.

🚨 Inflation hit 3.7% in September, the fastest pace since May. Gas alone jumped 9.1% in one month and is up 34% over the year — more than half of September’s entire price increase. The Fed’s own minutes blame Trump’s tariffs, energy costs and his war.

Trump promised to end inflation on day one. Twenty-one months later, gas in New York is $4.47 a gallon and diesel is $6.52. New York’s affordability crisis isn’t an accident. It’s the result.

An MS NOW reporter asked Ohio voters about Trump’s promised manufacturing boom. One of them: “I voted for him three times.” “Are you questioning your support for the president right now?” “Oh, yeah.”

🚨 Maine’s House Speaker Ryan Fecteau SLAMS the Trump-GOP health care agenda: “They want people to think that these programs do not work… so they can come back later and take them away entirely. That’s the goal.” Maine premiums rose an average of 77% this year.

It’s official: Trump’s tariffs are why your everyday goods cost more. 🧾 A new report from the NY Federal Reserve found that inflation on 67 kinds of everyday goods was entirely due to Trump’s tariffs. Without them, those prices would have gone down. Trump’s tariffs. Your bill.

"Rep. Mike Lawler promised not to cut Medicaid and Medicare. But he ended up doing it anyway." An SEIU nursing home worker whose mother is on Medicare and whose family relies on Medicaid. "It's not okay, and we are sick of it." Watch 👇

Trump promised to cut your utility bill in half. He's done the exact opposite. Your energy bills will be even HIGHER because of Trump and Republicans' costly agenda.

⛽ "I honestly feel like we might be at five something a gallon soon." A Connecticut driver, at a pump charging $4.69. 📈 A year ago the national average was $3.16. It's $4.41 now.

A reporter can't finish a conversation in Maine without cost of living coming up. Heating oil up 74% — Trump's war. ACA premiums up 77% — the bill he signed. 31,000 could lose Medicaid in January — the paperwork he signed. "You're getting it on all ends."

Trump and Republicans ripped away health care to pay for tax breaks for billionaires. Now 31,000 Mainers could lose Medicaid in January — not because they stopped qualifying, but because Republicans buried them in paperwork on purpose.

America faces a cost-of-living crisis made worse by the actions of the Trump Administration and Congressional Republicans.  I joined @defendamericaaction.org, @barbarafavola.bsky.social and @clarkfordelegate.bsky.social to discuss the impact on Virginians and how we are fighting to lower costs.

FOX NEWS: Diesel prices affect every single American with the grocery store. Republicans failed to meet Americans where they are at the kitchen table where they're trying to figure out their family budget. The pain at the pump is real, the pain in the pantry is real.

A Republican senator says investigating Trump administration corruption is "fair game." Sen. Thom Tillis on the Trump family crypto coin: "worth looking at." On the Putin-linked oligarch who paid for Don Jr.'s wedding: "My God."

Nearly 1,400 workers were laid off Wednesday at the old Navistar truck plant in Springfield, Ohio. That's enough to erase an entire year of job growth in the Dayton area. Trump holds a rally three days later, a few miles down the road.

"What he initially told the voters is B.S. — these prices weren't supposed to be so high." An Alaska Trump voter. In Hooper Bay, gas is $8.44 a gallon. Heating fuel, $9.24. In Kokhanok it's headed to $15. They buy a year's fuel at once. They're locked in.

With grocery and gas prices soaring, 60% of Americans want Pres. Trump to make inflation and the cost of living a top priority but only 19% feel he is actually focused on it. 🚨24% also report concerns that Trump is corrupt and focused on enriching himself, his family, & donors.

Breaking News: The US only added 29,000 jobs in September. They were expecting 84,000. Unemployment is also up. www.wsj.com/economy/jobs...

"Like he's just lying." "What he promised isn't happening." Since January: gas up 83% in Oklahoma. Diesel at record highs in three states. Mortgages at 7.28%, the highest in nearly three years. 20 months. Every lever of government. And the people who believed Trump are the ones paying the price.

Alabama voter: Trump said prices were going to go down, he said we weren't going to get into any more wars, and he said he was going to make everyone come together again — I don't see any of that. I think he's lied to a great majority of the people in this state.

Diesel at a record high. Trucking companies going bankrupt. Farmers borrowing money to cover fuel. Rural hospitals closing. That's the country right now. Trump's contribution this week: more incoherent speeches.

New analysis: Trump's energy policy changes are projected to cost the average US household $6,500 more for energy through 2040. Households in states that backed him in 2024 are projected to pay the most — about $7,000.

🚨 BREAKING: 29,000 jobs in September. Unemployment up to 4.2%. July revised to a net loss. Prices are rising faster than paychecks. Trump promised to lower costs on day one. Republicans control all of Washington. This is their economy.

Prices are skyrocketing. Inflation is up. Unemployment is high. Instead of working with us to lower costs, House Republicans cancelled votes and went home. abcnews.com/Business/job...

Mortgage rates just hit 7.28% — the highest in nearly three years. In late February, before Trump attacked Iran, they were below 6%. Seven months of war later, that's where a 30-year mortgage sits.

Trump's red state desperation tour hits Oklahoma, Alabama and Nebraska this week — three states he carried by double digits.What his policies did there: gas up 83% in Oklahoma. Premiums up an estimated 284% in Alabama. Record diesel in all three.

13 hospitals in rural Virginia may soon be unable to deliver a baby. Some will keep an ER. That's not the same thing. "No labor and delivery services. No cardiac care." — state Sen. Barbara Favola The cause: Medicaid cuts in the budget law Trump signed.

Trump has now floated five separate "dividend" checks, totaling nearly $15,000 per American. $5,000 from DOGE savings. $2,000 from tariffs. Another $5,000 this month. $500 in ACA refunds. Number actually paid out this term: zero.