Trump vs. the Democrats on the affordability crisis
By Peter Navarro | The Washington Examiner | November 28, 2025
OPINION:
The Democrats’ latest con job is blaming President Donald Trump for former President Joe Biden’s legacy inflation and claiming that Zohran Mamdani-style socialism will solve the “affordability problem” rather than make it far worse. If the Ocasio-Cortez-Sanders-Jeffries crowd gets away with this propaganda, the next “red wave” to wash over America will be a Marxist-controlled Congress in 2026.
Without question, families continue to feel the sting of Biden’s high prices — at the grocery store, at the gas pump, and in their monthly rent. Lower-income families feel it most, because they devote almost one-third of their budgets to food and another quarter to shelter — exactly the categories where Biden-era inflation has hit hardest.
President Trump and his economic team viscerally understand this pain and are working overtime to bring relief. Yet solving inflation isn’t like flipping a switch — it’s more like turning an aircraft carrier around: steady and deliberate, but agonizingly slow in some categories to show progress. As a practical and increasingly political matter, the impact of the new Trump policies is governed by lags that, in some sectors, stretch longer than the 10 months he has been back in office.