Lefler participated in a Monday Zoom conversation with Debbie Collins, a retiree living mainly on the state of Kansas’ public employees’ retirement system after 36 years in state government, and Nick Levendofsky, who is the executive director of the Kansas Farmer’s Union. “But even with those adjustments, my grocery bill is still higher than it ever was before, and it’s really hard to make my budget stretch,” said Collins, adding that the holiday season has added stress to shopping for presents for “two perfect grandchildren.” “Meanwhile, the president is doing what he usually does — blame his predecessor and deny, deny, deny,” said Lefler, adding that Trump, “in his free-range rambling national address last week,” cherry-picked a handful of items that have dropped in price, including eggs — which not only dropped less in price than Trump claims, but also had everything to do with a spike in bird flu that purged henhouses of birds, not Trump’s intelligent leadership.
Author: Adam Lynch
Published at: 2025-12-23 21:24:07
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