"New polling shows many Americans have begun to blame President Donald Trump for the high costs they’re feeling across virtually every part of their lives — and it’s shifting politics.

Almost half — 46 percent — say the cost of living in the U.S. is the worst they can ever remember it being, a view held by 37 percent of 2024 Trump voters."

~ Erin Doherty

#Trump #MAGA #Republicans #economy #affordability #prices #groceries
/2

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/12/04/poll-americans-trump-voters-affordability-crisis-00674747

"Trump won the 2024 election in large part because nonwhite Americans, relative to their voting decisions in 2020, moved significantly in his direction. Pew’s survey of validated voters found that black, Latino, and Asian-American voters shifted toward Trump by 16, 22, and 23 percentage points, respectively."

#Trump #MAGA #Republicans #economy #affordability #prices #groceries #immigrants
/12

"DONALD TRUMP’S LATEST ASSAULT ON IMMIGRANTS—threatening to 'denaturalize' U.S. citizens who were born in other countries—is an affront to human rights & American values. It’s also a betrayal of the six million naturalized Americans who voted for him last year. Without their ballots, he wouldn’t be president. And if they turn against him, his party will be out of power."

~ Will Saletan

#Trump #MAGA #Republicans #economy #affordability #prices #groceries #immigrants
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-bites-the-hand-that-voted-for-him-naturalized-immigrants-citizens
/11

"Trump is handling this reversal with his usual style and grace: in the past few days he has repeatedly called affordability a 'hoax' and a 'con job.' ....

Trump may believe that affordability is a con job, but it isn’t. It’s going to hit him and his allies hard. And it couldn’t happen to a more deserving group of people."

#Trump #MAGA #Republicans #economy #affordability #prices #groceries
/10

"Although economists warned that there was no way he could deliver on those promises, enough voters believed him to swing the election.

Now that Trump has in fact utterly failed to deliver, those voters — especially those Black and Latino voters who believed him — have swung back to the Democrats with a vengeance."

#Trump #MAGA #Republicans #economy #affordability #prices #groceries
/9

“'Affordability' doesn’t have a universally agreed-upon definition. Is it just a vibe? A number? How can you tell if it’s getting better or worse?

So let’s talk about how you might go about measuring affordability, if you were trying to do so in an intellectually honest way, and what Trump could do to improve the issue. He’s probably not going to like the answer."

#Trump #MAGA #Republicans #economy #affordability #prices #groceries
/5

“'The word "affordability" is a con job by the Democrats,' Trump declared during this week’s cabinet meeting, in between snoozes. 'The word "affordability" is a Democrat scam,' he insisted, adding that the word 'doesn’t mean anything to anybody.'

Sure, just last week he was proclaiming himself 'THE AFFORDABILITY PRESIDENT,' but maybe he has a point."

~ Catherine Rampell

#Trump #MAGA #Republicans #economy #affordability #prices #groceries
/4

https://www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-affordability-con-job-inflation

"Those are among the new results from The POLITICO Poll that crystallize a growing warning sign for Republicans ahead of next year’s midterms: Some of the very groups that powered Trump’s victory last year are showing signs of breaking from that coalition, and it’s the high cost of living that’s driving them away."

#Trump #MAGA #Republicans #economy #affordability #prices #groceries
/3

"New polling shows many Americans have begun to blame President Donald Trump for the high costs they’re feeling across virtually every part of their lives — and it’s shifting politics.

Almost half — 46 percent — say the cost of living in the U.S. is the worst they can ever remember it being, a view held by 37 percent of 2024 Trump voters."

~ Erin Doherty

#Trump #MAGA #Republicans #economy #affordability #prices #groceries
/2

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/12/04/poll-americans-trump-voters-affordability-crisis-00674747

"The Economist/YouGov poll released Monday found that 44% of respondents say prices are much higher than a year ago, including 21% of Trump voters. Meanwhile, Trump’s approval on affordability sits at a dire -27 points."

~ Andrew Wilson

#Trump #MAGA #Republicans #economy #affordability #prices #groceries
/1

https://www.lincolnsquare.media/p/the-gop-is-unravelling

Upcoming #SNAP changes

#USDA Secy Brooke Rollins is promising big changes to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), which currently helps almost 42M Americans buy #groceries.

In recent media appearances, she said attention on SNAP during the government shutdown "has given us a platform to completely deconstruct the program" & said details about structural changes to the program would be released this week.

#hunger #FoodStamps #law #Congress #Trump #USpol
https://www.npr.org/2025/12/01/nx-s1-5608225/snap-rule-changes-usda-rollins

Upcoming #SNAP changes

#USDA Secy Brooke Rollins is promising big changes to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), which currently helps almost 42M Americans buy #groceries.

In recent media appearances, she said attention on SNAP during the government shutdown "has given us a platform to completely deconstruct the program" & said details about structural changes to the program would be released this week.

#hunger #FoodStamps #law #Congress #Trump #USpol
https://www.npr.org/2025/12/01/nx-s1-5608225/snap-rule-changes-usda-rollins