Trump’s affordability speak: Letters | New York – Latest News
The Issue: President Trump’s affordability-focused marketing campaign following GOP losses in latest elections.
The phrase that President Trump should embrace during the remainder of his talking tour is empathy (“Fixing Joe’s money mess,” Dec. 10)
All the statistics he cites to show how the financial system is doing so significantly better is not going to win over the numerous who’re struggling. People are simply not feeling it, and don’t need to be instructed otherwise.
Tony Giametta
Oceanside
“Affordability” is the political buzzword of the week. Everything’s “too expensive” and the politician who can promise the bottom costs will get the brass ring on the carnival.
What precisely can people not afford, and who can’t afford it? Where is it taking place? Everything is all the time taking place elsewhere, and but the mainstream media would have you ever consider that it’s all over the place.
Arthur Saginian
Santa Clarita, Calif.
President Trump’s feedback in Pennsylvania final week show how out-of-touch he’s with the average American. Families can’t afford properties. Feeding a household and paying family payments is turning into more tough day by day.
Trump thinks he’s a famous person and sees himself as infallible — but hogs like him make it very arduous for “the little guy” to have any hope.
I voted Republican in 2024. I can’t think about voting for the GOP again.
Willie Harris
Peoria, Ariz.
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While I learn concerning the “affordability” debate, I’m astonished that the GOP misses the 2 greatest elements for the high value of dwelling, one being housing prices, and the opposite the principally hidden value of authorities: taxes.
For instance, New Jersey has extraordinarily high property taxes, which in my case, are about 10% of my income.
There’s additionally an alternative tax on each particular person on this nation for the extreme value of authorities and the horrendous use of capital.
Wake up, GOP.
Andrew J. MacDonald
Fanwood, NJ
Trump is again on the marketing campaign path to save lots of the House in 2026 from the offended Democrats.
This can be a tough process, since his 10 months in workplace actually haven’t introduced any financial restoration to the struggling American people, regardless that he insists we’re doing fairly effectively.
Ron Zajicek
Cortlandt
The Issue: The arrest of the alleged 2021 pipe bomber suspect after more than 4 years.
You don’t must be Sherlock Holmes to determine that when the Biden administration and the FBI realized that the alleged J6 pipe bomber in all probability was not some “MAGA white supremacist,” they misplaced curiosity within the investigation (“Dropping call and the ball,” Miranda Devine, Dec. 8).
Those who’re accountable ought to be held accountable.
Gerald Jacobs
Boca Raton, Fla.
Jake Tapper falsely saying the pipe bomber was a white man underscores what’s improper with at present’s media. The alleged felony’s race shouldn’t be related.
The information is that the FBI recognized and captured this alleged felony after practically 5 years and that he’ll hopefully be serving time for his unlawful actions.
Eileen Corr
Brewster, Mass.
No matter how many excuses idiots like Sen. Mark Warner make to remove credit from the Trump administration for locating the 2021 pipe-bomber suspect, the actual fact is that President Joe Biden’s FBI and Department of Justice couldn’t discover this man for 4 years whereas President Trump’s crew did it in beneath a yr.
Why? The DOJ and FBI beneath Biden had been led by full political hacks like Merrick Garland and Christopher Wray. Now we have now a actual DOJ and FBI run by Pam Bondi and Kash Patel.
Robert DiNardo
Farmingdale
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