Fox News - 8/6/2025 - Trump breaks 'Day One' promise to lower costs as prices surge across America in first six months The defining promise of Donald Trump’s 2024 campaign was lower costs on "Day One." He broke it.  The first six months of this administration have been marked by ever-higher prices.

Atlanta Journal Constitution - 8/5/2025 - Free rooftop solar program just launched in Georgia. Trump may try to end it. Andrew Bates, an adviser to the bipartisan Cost Coalition, also slammed the potential revocation of the Solar for All funds as an “illegal” attempt to “kill a game-changing program for working families, manufacturers, and small businesses.

CNN - 8/4/2025 - Erin Burnett  - Cost Coalition data used about firing of BLS Director over jobs numbers But "the Cost Coalition pointed out that Kevin Hassett had a very different thing to say in February...He took those revisions as accurate and proof of how 'terrible' Biden's economy was."

Cost Coalition Advisers Terry Holt, a Republican, and Andrew Bates, a Democrat, released the following statement after the Trump Administration announced a new wave of tariff hikes: “While Washington and Wall Street hem and haw about this new wave of inflationary tariffs, Main Street is bracing for higher prices on goods and services the American people use every day. Donald Trump and congressional Republicans promised to make life more affordable, but for average working Ame