Let’s play a game. 

I’m going to share a list of policy ideas, and you tell me who you think came up with them:

Now, if your guess was New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani or his democratic socialist pal Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, you’d be forgiven.

But you’d be wrong.

These are key elements of President Donald Trump’s affordability plan as we start the second year of his second term. He plans to elaborate on some of them this week while at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. Trump is scheduled to speak on Jan. 21. 

“Making America Affordable Again,” proclaimed White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt on social media, sharing a screenshot of the above list from a CNN report. 

Trump is miffed that the economy is turning out to be one of his weakest metrics, when it was one of his strongest in his first term. A recent Wall Street Journal poll found 54% of those surveyed say they disapprove of Trump’s job performance. 

And whether he likes it or not, the American people now soundly believe that what they are experiencing is due to Trump’s policies – not his........

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