{"id":813088,"date":"2026-10-25T04:24:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-25T04:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/813088\/"},"modified":"2026-10-25T04:24:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-25T04:24:10","slug":"voters-angry-about-high-prices-may-get-little-relief-from-the-next-congress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/813088\/","title":{"rendered":"Voters angry about high prices may get little relief from the next Congress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"ZWUMOA4D2FAHLHNPRUZFV46CZQ\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">If voters expect a new Democratic Congress to bring down prices, they will probably be disappointed.<\/p>\n<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"WGE7D7MFTZAEZPOYRYUF7CTXKM\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries (New York) promises the party\u2019s \u201caffordability agenda\u201d will \u201cdrive down the high cost of living in every possible area.\u201d But the main forces driving inflation are the Iran war\u2019s impact on energy prices, fallout from the artificial intelligence boom and President Donald Trump\u2019s trade policies. Even if they win control of the House and Senate on Nov. 3, there\u2019s little chance Democrats could terminate the war and end Trump\u2019s tariffs over his opposition \u2014 or would want to derail the AI boom.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If voters expect a new Democratic Congress to bring down prices, they will probably be disappointed. House Democratic&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":813089,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[84,1294,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-813088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-economy","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/813088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=813088"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/813088\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/813089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=813088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=813088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=813088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}