Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) scolded the Trump administration and MAGA Republicans for “gaslighting” Americans over the cost-of-living crisis and warned them not to “deny what is happening.”
Greene, who has clashed with Trump on spending and foreign policy in recent weeks, rejected the idea repeated by President Donald Trump that groceries are “at the lowest prices they have ever been.”
Polling consistently shows that Americans do not believe inflation has eased enough to improve their daily costs.
Speaking on The Sean Spicer Show on Thursday, Greene told host Sean Spicer, a former press secretary for the Trump White House, that the message was “infuriating” voters and could backfire.
“President Trump and his administration [do] deserve a lot of credit for lowering inflation and holding it steady, but that doesn’t bring prices down. And so gaslighting the people and trying to tell them that prices have come down is not helping,” she said.
“It’s actually infuriating people because people know what they’re paying at the grocery store. They know what they’re paying for their kid’s clothes and school supplies. They know what they’re paying for their electricity bills,” she continued, insisting Republicans must “show that we are in the trenches with them.”
“That’s first and foremost. You don’t gaslight them. You don’t lecture them, and you don’t deny what’s happening,” she added.
Greene pointed to government spending as the real driver of price increases, criticizing both Trump-era Covid stimulus packages and Democrats’ subsequent legislation.
“Government spending drives inflation,” she said, arguing that the CARES Act and later Democratic bills “dump money into the economy” in ways that sent prices soaring.
Trump and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent have both called the idea of a cost-of-living crisis a “con job” being pushed by a Democrat-backed media over the past week, insisting that prices are down and dismissing concerns.
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