{"id":144697,"date":"2026-02-25T11:39:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T11:39:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/144697\/"},"modified":"2026-02-25T11:39:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T11:39:07","slug":"news-12-brooklyn-lamont-blasts-trumps-speech-says-families-drowning-under-soaring-expenses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/144697\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Brooklyn | Lamont blasts Trump\u2019s speech, says families drowning under soaring expenses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gov. Ned Lamont issued a statement responding to President Trump\u2019s State of the Union address. He said the president\u2019s optimistic view of the economy did not match what families are experiencing.<\/p>\n<p>Lamont said the rising cost of living \u201cremains the biggest challenge facing working families.\u201d He said the administration\u2019s tariffs and health care policies \u201chave driven up the cost of groceries, housing, energy and insurance.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lamont said families need stability and real economic relief. \u201cFamilies and businesses need stability they can count on,\u201d he said. He added that leadership should focus on lowering costs and strengthening economic opportunity, which he described as \u201cthe hallmark of how we govern in Connecticut.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gov. Ned Lamont issued a statement responding to President Trump\u2019s State of the Union address. He said the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":144698,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63,60332],"class_list":["post-144697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-state-of-the-union"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144697\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/144698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}