Trump says affordability crisis is over. Voters and data disagree

Despite claims, polls and economists say tariffs and structural pressures keep US households under strain

The affordability crisis is over, Donald Trump told the US on Tuesday. The president's state of the union address put the blame for soaring prices squarely on the dirty, rotten" lies of the Democrats and claimed prices were now plummeting downward".

Soon you will see numbers that few people would think were possible to achieve just a short time ago," Trump said.