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The Republicans’ 2025 election losses have certainly gotten the Trump administration’s attention. After voters told exit pollsters that their top concern was an unaffordable economy, administration officials have announced a slate of new policies designed to make the economy more affordable.
But solving a problem is harder than announcing a policy, and many of the Trump administration’s latest moves sound like they were borrowed from the same Bidenomics playbook that failed both on its own terms and with voters.
Inflation
The most obvious affordability issue is inflation, which makes everything more expensive. This weekend, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent suggested that the Trump administration has finally dispatched this adversary. “We had to stop the increase first, now we are starting to see prices level off, come down.”
This plea for voters not to assign Trump the blame for their pocketbook pain does not reflect the government’s own inflation statistics. In September 2025, annual inflation remained at 3.0%, half again higher than the Federal Reserve’s target rate. And President Trump has spent much of his first year lobbying the Federal Reserve to lower interest rates, thereby taking its boot off of inflation’s neck.
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But solving a problem is harder than announcing a policy, and many of the Trump administration’s latest moves sound like they were borrowed from the same Bidenomics playbook that failed both on its own terms and with voters.
Inflation
The most obvious affordability issue is inflation, which makes everything more expensive. This weekend, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent suggested that the Trump administration has finally dispatched this adversary. “We had to stop the increase first, now we are starting to see prices level off, come down.”
This plea for voters not to assign Trump the blame for their pocketbook pain does not reflect the government’s own inflation statistics. In September 2025, annual inflation remained at 3.0%, half again higher than the Federal Reserve’s target rate. And President Trump has spent much of his first year lobbying the Federal Reserve to lower interest rates, thereby taking its boot off of inflation’s neck.
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Why Is Trump Copying Biden’s Economic Playbook?
The Republicans' 2025 election losses have certainly gotten the Trump administration's attention. After voters told exit pollsters that their top concern was an
