How We Can Finally Overcome the Affordability Crisis

How We Can Finally Overcome the Affordability Crisis
President Donald Trump speaks during a roundtable discussion in the Roosevelt Room of the White House on Dec. 10, 2025. Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images
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Commentary
Disapproval of the state of the economy is widespread today, despite many indicators improving since the start of the year. The reality is that most Americans’ financial situation deteriorated so much under the Joe Biden administration that there’s a long way to go before this affordability crisis is resolved. Fortunately, there are ways to speed up the process.
E.J. Antoni
E.J. Antoni
Author
E.J. Antoni, PhD is the is the Acting Director for the Thomas A. Roe Institute for Economic Policy Studies and Grover M. Hermann Center for the Federal Budget, and Richard Aster Fellow at The Heritage Foundation.