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Congressman Mark Alford sounded a warning that should jolt every parent and wage-earner in America: young people are being squeezed so hard by rising costs that many “can’t afford a monthly payment” on basic things like housing and groceries. That blunt assessment — aired on Fox News Live as GOP lawmakers raised the alarm about an affordability crisis — reflects what millions of Americans are living every day: paychecks stretched to the breaking point while Washington fiddles.
This isn’t abstract economics, it’s real families choosing between filling a grocery cart or making a rent payment, and Republicans are right to call out the drift toward socialism-style policies that promise more freebies but deliver less freedom and higher costs. Lawmakers on the segment tied the pain at the checkout and the housing market back to reckless fiscal policy and regulatory overreach that crush small businesses and consumers alike. The hard truth is that voters feel betrayed by elites who push big government solutions that only raise prices and debt.
While Washington debates slogans, Americans are locked out of homeownership and dependent on credit schemes just to keep up — a condition that favors politically fashionable entitlement programs over the dignity of work and savings. Conservatives should not be timid about pointing out that expanding government never repairs broken supply chains, skyrocketing utility bills, or the collapse of domestic energy and manufacturing capacity. If we want young people to afford a mortgage or a family, we must restore pro-growth policies that reward work, loosen burdensome regulations, and get inflation under control.
At the same time, Rep. Alford has raised a national security alarm that Republicans and patriots cannot ignore: reporting shows a trailer park sharing a fence with Whiteman Air Force Base was purchased through a web of shell companies tied to figures with alleged CCP connections. Alford has demanded answers and a classified briefing to determine whether the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States properly reviewed the 2017 transaction, calling it a “grave threat to national security.” This is the kind of bipartisan vigilance over foreign influence Americans expected their leaders to show.
Alford’s push for legislation — including his American Land and Property Protection Act to bar adversarial nations from owning U.S. land near critical military sites — is a commonsense response to loopholes that invite foreign actors to exploit our openness. Too many in the current administration have been asleep at the wheel while adversaries quietly position themselves next to our most sensitive installations; that negligence must end and Congress must act to protect both our families and our bases. Republicans should make strong national security reforms part of the same platform that restores economic freedom.
If conservatives want to win the argument and the country, we must speak plainly about the twin threats: economic policies that leave young Americans unable to take on a single monthly payment for a decent life, and national security lapses that let foreign adversaries creep onto American soil. Veterans, workers, and parents are tired of empty talk from the other side of the aisle; they want results — lower costs, stronger borders, and a government that defends the American way of life. It’s time for our leaders to deliver real solutions, not more excuses.
