Trump addresses prescription drug prices, pushing for lower costs for American families.
If you’ve been to a grocery store lately or filled up your car with gas, you’ve probably noticed how it costs a little less than just a few months ago and a lot less than the height of the Biden administration. That’s not an accident, it is what President Donald Trump promised to do. While some people might complain about how it wasn’t “fast enough” for them – for some people, anything short of immediate or sooner is too slow – prices on almost everything have been heading in the right direction since Democrats lost power.
That, however, is not good enough. What I mean by that is simple: with midterms lurking around the corner, elections are about continuing what you’re doing and what you’re going to do next, not rewards for what you’ve done. This, I think, was a flaw in President Trump’s 2020 reelection campaign where he focused an awful lot of having delivered tax cuts years earlier, which voters had already adapted to and, quite frankly, forgotten about because their spending habits had adapted.
Remind voters of what you’ve done, then tell them that you’re going to do more. That’s how you win.
President Trump has learned that. His second term is not being spent doing end zone dances over previous touchdowns, they’re working to do more and more. This is an important push because, thanks to a couple of feckless Republicans In Name Only in the Senate and the slimmest of majorities in the House, this White House has had to resort to executive actions to get things done, which can be overturned much easier than legislation by a future President.
That means that what is done by executive action needs to be impactful and helpful to the point that undoing it is almost as politically painful as repealing a law is difficult legislatively.
