A voter puts it plainly: food, rent, utilities, gas — all of it is slipping. His ask to lawmakers is simple: solve it together through policy, not partisan gridlock.

Abdul El-Sayed just announced he's running for U.S. Senate in Michigan, building his entire launch around the cost of groceries, gas, rent, and healthcare — no detailed policy platform yet, just the pressure people are already feeling.

Trump claimed prices have come down since he took office. They haven't — and when an interviewer pressed for specifics, there weren't any.

A GOP speaker's answer to voter frustration over gas prices: don't worry, in a socialist society you'd just be riding something with pedals. Hard to see how that lands well.

Oklahoma has the highest utility cutoff rate in the country — over 200,000 residents sitting at home right now without electricity, while oil and gas companies pay 3% production tax instead of 7% for the first three years.

Frost on Trump's utility promise: he said he'd cut costs in half — instead, utility bills are skyrocketing nationwide and people are paying more for worse health care than they had 18 months ago.

Abdul El-Sayed making a straightforward case: the richest country on earth still has people skipping groceries and avoiding doctors because of cost.

Obama says tariffs on Canada haven't cut the deficit as promised — instead the U.S. is now carrying $40 trillion in national debt, and he's pointing out Republicans who spent years demanding fiscal discipline have gone silent.

Filling a heating oil tank in Maine now runs about $1,800 — $700 more than last year — and it only lasts a few weeks. It's reportedly one of the top concerns on Susan Collins's radar right now.

Trump told supporters the poverty rate is "in great shape" and that "poverty is at its best level in American history" — framing a low poverty rate as poverty doing well, which is the opposite of what that means.

Mike Rogers is telling Michigan voters that $8 gas is the alternative to military action against Iran — making fuel prices the explicit justification for backing the conflict.

Some analysts put the tariff cost at over $4,000 per Georgia household — Buttigieg is in the state telling voters that's what "cut costs on day one" actually looked like.

Obama argues Iran policy has handed Tehran veto power over the Strait of Hormuz — and that's a direct driver of elevated oil, diesel, and consumer prices, with hundreds of Americans wounded and U.S. missile stocks depleted in the process.

Mark Kelly says diesel hit $650 a gallon amid the war in Iran and is pushing legislation to suspend the federal gas tax on gasoline, diesel, and aviation fuel.

AIPAC is dropping $9 million into El-Sayed's opponent's Senate race in the next two weeks — he's making that the center of his closing argument on the war, the debt, and gas prices.

Raskin says crime victims in the U.S. have lost $1.7 billion tied to what he calls pardon-for-pay schemes — money he claims went to brokers like Roger Stone and Matt Gaetz instead of restitution.

Iowa leads the nation in farm foreclosures, diesel is at an all-time high during harvest, and Josh Turek is pointing to seven specific congressional votes on Iran as the driver — all while the incumbent tours the state on a $400,000 custom bus.

Trump acknowledged gas prices may rise from Iran oil sanctions, calling it "a small price to pay" — a rare moment where a president openly signals a cost to consumers as an accepted trade-off for foreign policy.

Mortgage at 7.5%, diesel at $6, gas through the roof — Ana Navarro's case for why Trump is talking about Jon Husted's ass instead of any of that.

Rep. Gabe Vasquez says New Mexicans are paying $3,000 to $4,000 more due to tariffs and the war with Iran — that's a real household number, not an abstract policy figure.