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With Trump Focused on Iran, Affordability Worries Take Back Seat

Americans still view the cost of living as their biggest issue
A Shell station in Miami. The national average price of gasoline has topped $4 a gallon.Photographer: Eva Marie Uzcategui/Bloomberg

This is Washington Edition, the newsletter about money, power and politics in the nation’s capital. Nancy Cook is off this week. Today, senior domestic policy reporter Ted Mann looks at a key issue for voters that’s gotten overshadowed by the war with Iran. Sign up here. Email our editors here.

With President Donald Trump focused on the war with Iran, he risks losing sight of a political threat at home.