🎙️ The same people who pushed trillions in spending now act confused that prices climbed. We lay out how democrats got us here on inflation, and the size of the hole that Trump is trying to climb out of.

💵 Then, we look at the actual data — wage growth under Trump’s second term, the collapse of real wages under Biden, and the painful gap between rising prices and falling purchasing power. We talked through why the free-market fixes we’ve supported for years are still the right path, and why handing more control to Washington will only make families’ expenses worse.

🐘 Michigan hasn’t sent a Republican to this Senate seat in roughly three decades, but former congressman Mike Rogers thinks that streak is about to end. Rogers walks through what a real change election looks like in a 50–50, working-class state that actually builds things. ️

00:00 — Cold Open

01:41 — How Biden Broke the Economy

04:36 — Andy Beshear’s “economy of tomorrow” talking point loop

08:23 — Prices, wages, workers: the real affordability gap

14:16 — Why Obamacare was built to break the system

25:37 — Real wage growth explained

34:03 — Comparing conservative affordability to socialist “solutions”

42:06 — King of the Hill

54:37 — Mike Rogers on the future of Michigan

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