{"id":198406,"date":"2025-12-13T12:59:53","date_gmt":"2025-12-13T12:59:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=198406"},"modified":"2025-12-13T12:59:53","modified_gmt":"2025-12-13T12:59:53","slug":"treasury-sec-blames-liberal-media-for-affordability-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=198406","title":{"rendered":"Treasury Sec Blames Liberal Media for Affordability Crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Struggling to afford basic necessities? Perhaps you only think you\u2019re feeling the pinch, due to media bias against President Donald Trump\u2014or at least, that\u2019s what Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent suggested during a Sunday talk show appearance.On CBS News\u2019s Face the Nation, host Margaret Brennan asked Bessent about Trump\u2019s recent controversial description of \u201caffordability\u201d as a Democrat-spun \u201ccon job.\u201d Considering that public opinion polls show Americans are widely concerned about cost-of-living and largely disapprove of the president\u2019s handling of the economy&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/newrepublic.com\/post\/204082\/treasury-scott-bessent-media-economy\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Struggling to afford basic necessities? Perhaps you only think you\u2019re feeling the pinch, due to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":198407,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-198406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-americas"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/198406-treasury-sec-blames-liberal-media-for-affordability-crisis.jpeg",1200,800,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/198406-treasury-sec-blames-liberal-media-for-affordability-crisis-150x150.jpeg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/198406-treasury-sec-blames-liberal-media-for-affordability-crisis-300x200.jpeg",300,200,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/198406-treasury-sec-blames-liberal-media-for-affordability-crisis-768x512.jpeg",640,427,true],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/198406-treasury-sec-blames-liberal-media-for-affordability-crisis-1024x683.jpeg",640,427,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/198406-treasury-sec-blames-liberal-media-for-affordability-crisis.jpeg",1200,800,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/198406-treasury-sec-blames-liberal-media-for-affordability-crisis.jpeg",1200,800,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/198406-treasury-sec-blames-liberal-media-for-affordability-crisis-1024x683.jpeg",1024,683,true],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/198406-treasury-sec-blames-liberal-media-for-affordability-crisis-825x575.jpeg",825,575,true],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/198406-treasury-sec-blames-liberal-media-for-affordability-crisis-590x410.jpeg",590,410,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=41\" rel=\"category\">Americas<\/a>","tag_info":"Americas","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=198406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198406\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/198407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=198406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=198406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=198406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}