Welcome to the Mary Trump podcast.

Let's dive it.

I conducted an informal poll on my YouTube channel a few days ago and asked a simple question.

Can you afford your bills next month?

13,000 people responded and unsurprisingly, the vast majority said some version of no or a qualified yes, as in yes next, next month, but not the month after.

Or yes, barely.

Or yes, but things are getting worse.

This leads us to a very important question that many Americans are asking right now.

In what universe does starting a war of choice against the nation that

posed absolutely no imminent threat to us at all help the bottom line of the American people?

Affordability is such a huge issue for most Americans, and it's an issue that favors Democrats

because Democrats actually care about making things more affordable for the American people, Donald has decided that affordability as a concept does not exist. According to him, affordability is a word Democrats made up to trick us into thinking the economy is bad, which is, yes, crazy.

Meanwhile, because of his disastrous economic policies, you know, things like tariffs, for example,

and getting us out of USAID, which in addition to helping starving children abroad, also gave billions of dollars to American farmers for their produce to send to the starving children abroad.

Because of Donald's idiocy, because of his greed.

The American economy is in reality in terrible shape.

Everything's more expensive.

Inflation has not been meaningfully brought down, meaningfully brought down.

And because the Republican Party has no health care plan and is instead focused on gutting

the Affordable Care Act, some Americans are now looking at deductibles in excess of $31,000.

Yes, that $31,000 for a health insurance deductible that is more than many Americans make in an entire year, which is to say

millions of Americans will no longer have health insurance through the Affordable Care Act or at all.

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