Jake Tapper Points Out How Often Trump's Own Past Tweets Directly Contradict Everything He's Saying And Doing

On the campaign trail, President-elect Donald Trump spoke of the burden grocery prices were placing on Americans and promised to help bring relief to more households. It’s a vow that may have helped him get elected, but experts say his proposed tariffs could exacerbate the problem. High prices—and the economy more broadly— were top of mind for most Americans at the ballot box.

This article is part of The D. C. Brief, TIME’s politics newsletter. Sign up here to get stories like this sent to your inbox. Not one year ago, Rep. Nancy Mace took her seat in the committee meeting room and peppered a friendly witness with questions she already knew the answers to. “Does the color of your skin matter when you are in the trenches, when you are in combat?” the Republican lawmaker asked a Space Force commanding officer who was fired after publicly claiming Marxist ideologies were widespread in the military.

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By FATIMA HUSSEIN and AMANDA SEITZ WASHINGTON (AP) — President-elect Donald Trump is nominating the billionaire professional wrestling mogul Linda McMahon to be secretary of the Education Department, tasked with overseeing an agency Trump has promised to dismantle. McMahon led the Small Business Administration during Trump’s initial term from 2017 to 2019 and twice ran unsuccessfully as a Republican for the U.

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