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Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) pushed back on President Trump’s claim that grocery prices are falling, arguing that affordability — an issue she believes contributed to GOP election losses this week — is a problem for many Americans.
“I go to the grocery store myself,” Greene told CNN’s Kaitlan Collins on Thursday. “Grocery prices remain high. Energy prices are high. My electricity bills are higher here in Washington, D.C., at my apartment, and they‘re also higher at my house in Rome, Ga., higher than they were a year ago.”
“So, affordability is a problem,” the lawmaker continued. She said she worried about her children’s generation the most, because “they’re having a very hard time.”
The Georgia Republican said that when she is back home in the Peach State, many of her constituents tell her they have trouble affording groceries and paying their rent.
“I‘m hearing stories of, not only are we having a really hard time affording groceries and rent and things like that, but I’m also hearing stories about people maxing out their credit cards just to afford their monthly expenses,” she told Collins, who hosts “The Source.”
Greene previously tied Americans’ dissatisfaction with the economy to Democratic victories at the polls, saying it played a “significant factor in the elections.”
“The cost of living is a problem, and I’ve been talking about this for months,” she said in an NBC interview published Wednesday, adding that she would give the president “some credit” on the issue of inflation, but that rent and home prices were continuing to rise.
Democratic candidates that won by wide margins Tuesday centered affordability in their campaigns. In New York City, Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani promised free buses to constituents, while Virginia and New Jersey’s gubernatorial winners emphasized the need to address rising cost-of-living expenses..
Trump acknowledged voters’ affordability concerns ahead of Tuesday’s elections, writing that energy costs were “plummeting” under his administration.
“If affordability is you[r] issue, VOTE REPUBLICAN!” Trump posted Tuesday on Truth Social.
But after the GOP election losses, he doubled down on claims that prices had decreased under his administration and said the affordability issue was “DEAD.”
“My cost[s] are lower than the Democrats on everything, especially oil and gas!” the president wrote in a post Thursday. “So the Democrats “affordability” issue is DEAD! STOP LYING!!!”
Ohio GOP gubernatorial candidate Vivek Ramaswamy and Vice President Vance, however, have acknowledged that affordability remains a concern for voters.
“We’re going to keep on working to make a decent life affordable in this country, and that’s the metric by which we’ll ultimately be judged in 2026 and beyond,” Vance wrote Wednesday in a social media post.
