{"id":453251,"date":"2026-02-06T21:49:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T21:49:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/453251\/"},"modified":"2026-02-06T21:49:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T21:49:07","slug":"the-political-cost-of-americas-surging-electricity-bills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/453251\/","title":{"rendered":"The political cost of America\u2019s surging electricity bills"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US President Donald Trump gathered a robust coalition of voters in 2024, in part, on the promise of slashing electricity bills. But now, more than a year after his return to the Oval Office, prices are on the rise. The FT\u2019s US energy reporter Martha Muir and US economic correspondent Myles McCormick examine why those costs are ticking up and how that might affect November\u2019s midterm elections.<\/p>\n<p>Mentioned in this podcast:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/as.ft.com\/r\/042448d9-635c-4714-b54b-f136ff793680\" title=\"\" data-trackable=\"link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The political cost of America\u2019s surging electricity bills<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ep.ft.com\/newsletters\/56a64b704f693a0300dfab7e\/subscribe\" title=\"\" data-trackable=\"link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sign up for the FT\u2019s Swamp Notes newsletter here<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Swamp Notes is hosted by Marc Filippino and produced by Henry Larson. This week\u2019s show was mixed by Sam Giovinco. Our executive producer is Topher Forhecz and the FT\u2019s global head of audio is Cheryl Brumley. Special thanks to Pierre Nicholson. <\/p>\n<p>The FT does not use generative AI to voice its podcasts.<\/p>\n<p>CREDIT: NBC News, NBC 4<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ft.com\/accessibility#podcast-transcriptions\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">View our accessibility guide<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"US President Donald Trump gathered a robust coalition of voters in 2024, in part, on the promise of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":453252,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[28,101],"class_list":["post-453251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-economy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=453251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453251\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/453252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=453251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=453251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=453251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}