Sixty-three dollars. That is how much more it costs a family in our district to fill a grocery cart today than it did just four years ago. Sixty-three dollars, every single week.
You feel it at the register. You feel it at the gas pump. You feel it when the electric bill shows up and you wonder how the number keeps climbing. Your neighbors feel it too. But the people we keep sending to Washington? They have not felt it in years.
And honestly, that is not a new problem. Politicians from both parties have been letting families in this district down for decades. They fly back to D.C., cut their deals, hold their press conferences, and nothing changes for the people back home. The grocery bill still goes up. The housing market still locks out your kids. The energy bill still makes no sense. And the same communities that built this part of Southern California get told, again and again, to just hang on a little longer…