Costs, Iran voters’ top priorities for next Congress: Survey

A majority of respondents to a recent survey want the next Congress to focus on lowering the cost of living and winding down the Iran war.

Roughly 80 percent of the 1,119 respondents to the Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research poll said lawmakers should make lowering prices one of their highest priorities in the 120th Congress. 

About 70 percent of respondents also said lawmakers should prioritize ending the Iran conflict, which is approaching the eight-month mark and has resulted in the deaths of 21 U.S. service members and gas prices of more than $4 per gallon on average in the U.S.

Annual inflation has risen from 2.4 percent in February to 3.7 percent last month, according to the consumer price index. Energy prices were up 20.4 percent year-over-year after experiencing........

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