President Donald Trump has said that consumer prices are falling tremendously as he sought to ease voter anxiety about the United States’ cost of living.
Speaking at a casino in the battleground state of Pennsylvania, the president said he had no higher priority than making America affordable again.
In recent weeks, his administration has removed tariffs from dozens of food products and announced its rollback of fuel efficiency standards and Trump-branded retirement accounts for children as cost-of-living fixes.
Democrats have also capitalised on Trump’s political vulnerability on the economy in recent off-cycle votes, leaving many Republicans uneasy about next year’s midterms elections.