Many folks are not able to move out from under their parent’s wing because of the expenses everyone else takes for granted.
The incremental costs of eco regulations for new appliance and vehicles, or what not, are not as noticeable when you are already established, but when first starting out it’s incredibly problematic.
This is not a recent development. Mandami just got in office. For decades government has been making things more expensive.
It won’t matter one iota how much Trump manages to Doge and anti-fraud the government. In spite of that, has the Congress reduced the budget? -Nope.
DOGE didn't matter because the President and the Republicans passed a Continuing Resolution which just restored the Biden era budgets to everything DOGE tried to cut. One of those things Massie voted against, and Trump wants to pretend is a betrayal of him, instead of recognizing that passing the Biden budget was a betrayal of all of us.