President Donald Trump keeps saying that prices, particularly energy prices , are going down, despite data painting a more complex economic picture .

That rhetoric could cause political problems for Republicans before next year’s midterm elections if voters express their exasperation at the ballot box after Trump last year promised on the campaign trail, in his own words, to “rapidly drive prices down” and “make America affordable again.”

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