Parties Pitch Competing Plans on Affordability

“Lawmakers in both parties view simmering fury over the cost of living as the top issue in next year’s midterm elections and are pitching a growing profusion of proposals to tackle the notoriously difficult problem of affordability,” the Washington Post reports.

“Republicans are touting the tax cuts they passed in July and considering a second party-line package to address health care and other matters. Democrats, meanwhile, are drafting proposals aimed at making everything from health care and housing to energy and groceries more affordable.”