When Democratic House Leader Hakeem Jeffries spoke on the first day of the new Congress, he immediately focused on the high prices that frustrated so many voters.
“America is too expensive,” Jeffries (N.Y.) said in on the House floor after a vote confirming him as minority leader — rather than the speakership he had hoped to claim.
The party’s Senate leader, Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), launched his time back in the minority by saying Democrats “will fight to bring down inflation.”
And on their first major votes of the year, four dozen House Democrats voted for the Laken Riley Act, a ...