President Donald Trump will tell you that “affordability” is a “dead” issue, but the slate of economic proposals he’s put forward in recent days begs to differ.

Democrats, including New York City mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani , parlayed a campaign focus on rising prices into big-time wins in last week’s elections . The messaging ran directly contrary to the president’s own claims that his policies are engineering a new “golden age” of American economic dominance.

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Trump, however, chalked up the Republican losses to the fact that he himself wasn’t on the

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