Democrats are seeking to check Trump’s power and are preparing for early fights on government spending. Other challenges include chronic budget deficits, tariffs, artificial intelligence and difficult choices about a Social Security system that could run short of money in as little as six years.
But as long as rising prices keep making middle-class lives less affordable, Democrats and Republicans alike face the risk of angering and alienating voters in the next election cycle.
“Until inflation and interest rates are under control, the likelihood of change elections is going to be high on an ongoing basis,” said Marc Goldwein, senior vice president at the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget.
TBH, this headline pissed me off.
When it comes to the poor and middle class it’s always “tough choices”. When something largely benefits the rich, who don’t actually fucking work and are making most of their money off of interest and capital gains, that language is never employed. Hell, these parties voted to make tens of billions appear overnight for a war they could plainly see was already a failure. How was that not a “touch choices”?
I’ve heard a very cool idea being bandied about: Dems taking power, fining every company that got a tariff refund and didn’t return it, and ordering those funds returned to consumers.
Seems like a good one. You can be anti-corruption, anti-tariff and pro-affordability in one move.
Chances are they’ll waste the next two years on sham hearings thought.