White House laser focused on affordability as Trump softens tariff strategy.

Okay. So there's two stories like, well, you know, affordability is just a Democrat hoax.

It's not a real thing. No one's really dealing with that. It's just a bunch of BS.

But behind closed doors, apparently, guys, we got to get this affordability thing scored away as we're going through this next phase.

So the Trump administration is ramping down terrorists for even more goods as the White House zeroes in on its messaging ground affordability.

The White House announces Wednesday that tariffs slated to kick in Thursday as furniture kitchen cabinets and vanities would be postponed for another year.

This indicates that on some level, the White House understands that President Trump's tariffs are driving up consumer prices

and that Trump and the Republican Party incurring substantial political damage from higher prices.

Michael Strain said the White House slapped a 25% tariff on furniture, kitchen cabinets, and

vanities in October tariffs on furniture were slated to increase to 30% in January, and tariffs

on the cabinets and vanities were set to increase to 50%, but they're trying to figure out

something going on here with affordability. Tom, your thoughts on the story. Well, first of all,

we were correct. We talked about this, and we said that the tariffs, and we said at the time of your thoughts on the story well first of all uh we were correct we talked about this and

we said that the tariffs and we said at the beginning of the year they would be tactics not taxes

and guess what all the economists come out and so surprised oh wow well you know it really hasn't

gone up and it hasn't been as inflationary as we thought even the the Fed, Jerome Powell, you know, the short-timer, who's about to lose his job, has said that.

And what's happening this week is the president is talking more about affordability to kind of take the messaging back from the Democrats who keep saying, oh, it's inflationary, inflationary.

If you look at one of the things

that was happening this week, it was a bunch of pre-made construction stuff. These are things that,

you know, average Americans buy every week, not. Vanities, kitchen cabinets, you know, higher-end

furniture. Come on. Those aren't the things that people are buying every week, and that's not what

tariffs are going to cause inflationary. As a matter of fact, he moved on some agricultural

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