Producer costs posted their steepest single-month jump in more than four years — driven by tariff pass-through and an Iran-constricted oil market pushing gas prices higher at the pump. Said Trump, when asked about Americans' financial situation: "I don't think about American financial situation." That quote is the opposition's entire 2026 ad buy. Republicans defending that line in swing districts are playing defense on kitchen-table economics while grocery prices climb alongside energy costs — the exact double-squeeze that flipped the House in 2006 and 2018. The play for Democrats is simple: make every competitive race a local referendum on who's paying the price for decisions made at Mar-a-Lago.