President Trump shaking hands with House Speaker Mike Johnson after signing a bill to officially end the government shutdown on Nov. 12, 2025. Photo by BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP via Getty Images

The debate over affordability is now truly and fully joined.

Ahead of next year’s midterms, Democrats are coalescing around a cost-of living message that makes more sense than their anti-Trump obsessions (not that we aren’t going to hear a lot about those).

For its part, the White House has concluded that the affordability issue is a vulnerability, and President Donald Trump has thrown out a raft of proposals to address it — from $2,000 tariff rebates to 50-year mortgages .

Health care will be a major front in this fight, a traditional Democratic policy strength that the party emphasized

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