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They're saying the quiet part out loud: Trump's policies have raised healthcare costs so much Americans are going into debt.

As Trump plans a visit to Wisconsin tomorrow, residents like John, a public school teacher, won't be the only ones demanding answers from the president and Rep. Derrick Van Orden (R-Wis.) on rising costs in the state.

Tariffs have bankrupted our farmers. Now, Trump's war with Iran has made a bad situation worse.

Americans pay more for gas, food, and healthcare while the first family rakes in billions from Trump's corrupt deals.

A life you can afford shouldn't be a fantasy.

Neera Tanden: We're at war with Iran and inflation is the highest its been in 3 years, but the Trump administration spending time and taxpayer money to put Donald Trump's face on a $250 bill. It's absurd.

Neera Tanden: Donald Trump listed out three primary goals when he started his war with Iran. Now, he's trying to manage our expectations for defeat.

Despite what the Trump administration says, Americans know the truth: We can't keep up with rising costs in Trump's economy.

We're all paying for Trump's illegal war. But he doesn't think about us at all.

They say there isn't money for healthcare, food assistance, and critical issues facing the American people, but somehow there's money for $1.7 slush fund Trump's allies?

Neera Tanden: Trump created policies to help corporations then traded stocks to personally enrich himself, blatantly rigging the economy against the American people.

Neera Tanden: Trump's tariffs and war have raised costs for the American people, making life unaffordable for many.

It's not America first, it's Trump first.

Gas costs over $4.50 a gallon for Americans right now. How do Republicans respond? "That's life."

Americans are paying for Trump's broken promises.

Americans can't afford gas, groceries or healthcare and the president couldn't care less.

WATCH: Trump's economic advisor tries to make us believe more credit card debt is a good thing.

Americans are feeling squeezed—prices are increasing, and wages can't keep up.

This is Donald Trump's economy, and it's failing us.

Neera Tanden: Trump came into office as a "free speech champion." Now, he's using the Department of Justice and taxpayer dollars to go after Sen. Mark Kelly for stating the law—that members of the military can disobey illegal orders.

"A billion dollars for a ballroom." Watch Jimmy Kimmel break down Republicans' newest ploy to get taxpayers to pay for Trump's ballroom.

BREAKING: Republicans want $1 billion of OUR tax dollars to fund Trump's ballroom. Trump's been lying to us for the past year.

Neera Tanden: By deciding to start a war with Iran, Donald Trump has made Americans' number one concern, the rising cost of living, worse.

Americans pay a war tax at the pump—and it's getting expensive.

Tell your members of Congress to stop Trump's war. 202-224-3121.

Republicans want us to have confidence in THIS economy??

Neera Tanden: It's up to Congress to determine if the Voting Rights Act should be amended, not six justices appointed by Republicans who get dinner with the president.

Neera Tanden: Americans should be concerned that James Comey has to be dragged into court because Trump has a personal vendetta against him.

Neera Tanden: At the end of the day, we have no assurances that we're getting a denuclearized Iran.

Neera Tanden: Americans are paying for Trump's war and I don't think Republicans who cheerlead are acknowledging that pain.

Neera Tanden: Americans don't approve of Trump's war in Iran.

Pete Hegseth is spending billions of OUR dollars on the war in Iran, and he can't even get his story straight on why it started.

Rep. Khanna calls out Hegseth for his indifference to Americans' increased costs.

Moulton: The war in Iran comes at a high cost for American taxpayers.

Neera Tanden: After 10 years of this, Americans are tired of Trump and Republicans attacking anyone they can—like Jimmy Kimmel—to deflect from their failing agenda.

Neera Tanden: The FCC is doing the bidding of Donald Trump to punish the free speech of Jimmy Kimmel to make other companies think twice.

Neera Tanden on the FCC's review of ABC's broadcast license: Last year, Disney lost streamers because they caved to the Trump administration, and all the American people are asking for is these businesses to stand up for the First Amendment.

How is a taxpayer funded ballroom for Trump NOT waste, fraud and abuse?

THIS is the reality for Americans, no matter what the Trump administration says.

James Carville breaks down what's happening in America right now. Take a listen 🔊

Neera Tanden: The reason you're seeing mid-decade redistricting battles is because Trump is nervous—he has one of the lowest approval ratings of any president in modern history.

Neera Tanden: When government officials use insider knowledge to win big with prediction markets, they take everyone else as suckers. That's not fair.

Neera Tanden: A series of strange bets surrounding Iran and Venezuela raises the question if online betting on future events should be legal.

You don't have to be a cabinet secretary to know that Trump's polices are causing groceries prices to skyrocket.

MUST WATCH: Rep. Scott Perry (R-PA) ignores his constituent's concerns about rising costs while the Trump administration spends billions on war with Iran.

Neera Tanden on Labor Secretary Chavez-DeRemer: The investigations into Chavez-DeRemer are unlike anything we've seen in any agency, and Trump has flipped from firing no one to firing three women in under two months.

Listen to these veterans: We can't afford Trump's war of choice in Iran.

Neera Tanden: Trump has gambled with America's position as a world leader by entering a war of choice.

Neera Tanden: The cracks are showing; it's hard for even his strongest supporters to defend Donald Trump's actions over the last 24 hours.

Neera Tanden: Viktor Orbán was a linchpin for global authoritarianism—his loss is a loss for Trump.

Neera Tanden: Inflation is higher today then the day Trump took office. His tariffs and war of choice with Iran make Americans pay higher prices.

Neera Tanden: Donald Trump turned his back on the American people—his policies are driving prices higher when he promised the opposite.

Frank Kendall: The Iranians seem to have the upper hand right now and the Trump administration's response is to roll the dice and hope it goes well.

Frank Kendall: The normal national security process involves anticipating and planning for different reactions from an actor like Iran—that doesn't seem to be happening in this case.

Retired General weighs in on Trump's Iran strategy—and how it's failing Americans.

Neera Tanden to Melania Trump: Transparency starts at home—respect the survivors and release the Epstein files.

Neera Tanden: New reporting suggests that Trump started a war with Iran against the advice of our intelligence community—it's damaging and dangerous.

Neera Tanden: Iran still has the ability to harm our forces so it cannot be the case that we've destroyed their military.

Neera Tanden: It's hard to understand how we get out Trump's war that's given Iran strategic control over the global economy and American consumers.

Neera Tanden: Maybe the reason so many former Trump allies are mad is they took him at his word when he promised "no new wars."

Neera Tanden: What was the point of Trump's war—which cost billions and drove prices up—if Iran is more powerful now than before?

Neera Tanden on Pam Bondi's firing: Every American should be disturbed that Donald Trump believes that the Department of Justice is his personal vengeance machine.

Neera Tanden: Donald Trump's decisions are driving up costs for the American people.

Neera Tanden: Trump said that he need more money for his war with Iran, so there will be less money to pay for child care in America.

The country's next top law enforcement officer wants you to know that he thinks it's fine if someone parties with Epstein.

Trump: There's no money to help you pay for child care. Also Trump: There's always money for war.

If only rising costs, a war, and job losses were a joke...

Gas prices are over $4 a gallon, and this is all Republicans have to say?

Immigrants deserve our respect—not the Trump administration's cruelty.

Clean energy IS affordable energy.

Senate Democrats held strong—the House must pass their bill and pay TSA NOW.

"Were you silent or did you speak up?" Find a 'No Kings' rally near you tomorrow and stand up for all Americans.

"It seems like someone Googled 'Top 10 reasons to strike Iran' and they threw them up on the wall like spaghetti to see what would stick."

Neera Tanden: ICE officers must follow the laws of law enforcement but Trump has ensured that there are no protections for us.

Neera Tanden: ICE and CBP need to be reined in and TSA needs to be funded, but Republicans walked away from Democrats' deal last week to do both.

Neera Tanden: The SAVE Act is not voter ID—it will prevent millions from exercising their right to vote.

Neera Tanden: The worst possible idea is to provide resources to a regime you are at war with—but that's what Trump did.

Neera Tanden: Despite America producing more oil and gas then ever before, Trump's war with Iran has caused prices to skyrocket for Americans.

Neera Tanden: Americans have already paid too much for Trump's war in Iran, and it's concerning that there's no end in sight.

Horror movie idea: Gas prices that just keep going up.

Trump calls this helping 👀

Why are there long lines and TSA workers are continuing to go without pay? Trump said no to a deal with the Democrats.

Pete Hegseth's words make our troops less safe.

Neera Tanden: The SAVE Act has been misnamed as a voter ID law. It's not. The bill adds extreme hurdles to voting and is a bridge too far for Democrats—and should be for Republicans as well.

Neera Tanden: Democrats and Republicans reached a deal to fund TSA and Donald Trump wants to hold everything up to pass the SAVE Act. Republicans want Trump to take the deal—they know this airport chaos contributes to a perception that the President's administration is sowing chaos in the country.