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Affordability is a big reason that President Donald Trump was elected in 2024 and a big reason that Democrats thrived in the off-year elections of 2025. Now here in 2026 both parties are still embracing the theme and thank goodness for that. As consumers and taxpayers, let’s enjoy this moment in which a bipartisan political consensus holds that money in our pockets should maintain its value and that goods and services should be plentiful. Achieving affordability naturally requires governmental restraint, and let’s hold both parties to this wonderful standard. The bet here is that Democrats will have the harder time living with it. They may even regret insisting that
it’s the key test of the Trump presidency. So far this is one issue where he seems amenable to accepting their terms. “President Donald Trump arrived in Iowa on Tuesday as part of the White House’s midterm-year pivot toward affordability,” report Seung Min Kim and Hannah Fingerhut for the Associated Press today. The AP reporters note: The trip is expected to also highlight energy policy, White House chief of staff Susie Wiles said last week. It’s part of the White House’s strategy to have Trump travel out of
Washington once a week ahead of the midterm elections to focus on affordability issues facing everyday Americans… Certainly there are plenty of people on the left hoping that this issue will still be a problem for Republicans in the fall. “As Trump Heads to Iowa to Trumpet Economy, Many Residents Feel Pain,” states a headline today at the New York Times. Timesman Alan Rappeport reports: President Trump is heading to Iowa on Tuesday to once again try to convince Americans that he is focused on
“affordability.” He will have some explaining to do.
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