With one week left before voters deliver what political observers believe could be a historic rebuke of the GOP, the Washington Post advises readers to temper their expectations of the Democratic Party. “If voters expect a new Democratic Congress to bring down prices,” Post reporter David Lynch warns, “they will probably be disappointed.”
Although prominent Democrats have solicited voters’ support by promising to focus on “affordability,” Democratic majorities in one or both chambers of Congress will find their hands tied. “There is nothing the next Congress can do about the level of prices,” said Barack Obama’s former chief economic adviser Jason Furman.
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