Shoppers walk outside a grocery store in Bergenfield, New Jersey, on October 24. Kena Betancur/Bloomberg/Getty Images

President Donald Trump has a fresh chance this week to act on a priority voters continually say they want fixed — but over which he’s in denial.

The high and rising prices of health care, groceries and housing are a leading impediment to the lives of millions of Americans. But Trump, not unusually for presidents, seems more interested in his own political goals and obsessions.

Americans wracked by economic insecurity can’t wait. Nor can Republican lawmakers, who fear the president’s response — which is largely to blame his predecessor Joe Biden — will doom their reelection chances next year.

“Every bill we bring to the floor should be focused on lowering the cost of

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