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Economy
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It’s not a question of a price tag. It’s not — really, we have no choice.

Welcome to the age of Trumpflation. Groceries are up. Chicken, pork, steak are all more expensive.

SLASH prices–so fast it’ll make their heads spin.

We are going to have all this money in there, and I say I want it back. And I told them that I want the equivalent, like $500 billion worth of rare earth.

It’s hard to bring [prices] down once they’re up. You know, it’s very hard.

we have called out Trump’s plans to impose tariffs.

In Kentucky, local storeowners are already hearing about their suppliers’ prices going up. One estimate suggests the president’s tariffs could cost the average Kentuckian up to $1,200 each year.

What we're really facing here is an administration that campaigned on bringing down prices and is not doing that.

I think what’s going to go up is jobs are going to go up, and prices could go up somewhat short-term, but prices will also go down.

Tariff lovers will be forced to explain the persistence of high prices.

It’s hard to bring things down once they’re up. You know, it’s very hard. But I think that they will.

When you get down to it, it's going to be probably close to a trillion.

Starting on Day 1, we will end inflation and make America affordable again.

Today, the oligarchs and the billionaire class are getting richer and richer and have more and more power.

Running farmers out of business, derailing infrastructure projects, cutting cancer research and killing good-paying clean energy jobs isn’t just unpopular, it’s devastating for working people everywhere.