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The high cost of inflation is leading to mounting credit card debt, as one former consumer watchdog leader lamented that Americans are living on a "treadmill of debt."

Speaking to MSNBC on Wednesday, one financial expert warned that inflation, tariffs and price gouging are making life increasingly difficult for the U.S., particularly as children go back to school.

President Donald Trump vowed to name himself as a Kennedy Center honoree in 2026.

On Wednesday, Trump kicked off his announcement of the 2025 nominees with a complaint about hosting the event.

As new reporting continues to show inflation ticking up, with the consumer price index rising by 2.7% in July, President Donald Trump’s poll numbers on inflation have plummeted in what CNN’s Harry Enten labeled an “abject disaster for the president.”

“Into the gutter we go, underwater we go; he's 25 points underwater my goodness gracious, that is where the Little Mermaid is and he is matching the Little Mermaid, that's how far underwater he is on the issue that got him elected,” Enten said.

The White House has ordered the Smithsonian Institution to align its museum exhibits with President Donald Trump's vision of American history, which has set off alarms about how that will impact the accuracy of the story told to visitors.

Eight museums are covered under the order setting a 120-day deadline for "replacing divisive or ideologically driven language with unifying, historically accurate, and constructive descriptions," and MSNBC's Jonathan Lemire said that would necessarily corrupt how they presented the history of slavery and other difficult topics.

President Donald Trump’s recent firing of Bureau of Labor Statistics Commissioner Erika McEntarfer following the agency’s publication of an abysmal jobs report is just the latest example of “Trump’s evil super power,” said journalist Garrett Graff Wednesday while speaking on CNN.

“I think certainly this is part of what is to me Donald Trump's evil superpower, which is the way that he makes us focus in on and care about minor government jobs that most Americans should never have to think about; postmaster general, (or) the person who's running the Treasury payment system,” Graff said.

The panel on CNN's "NewsNight with Abby Phillip" erupted after a GOP analyst claimed President Donald Trump's latest directive to the Smithsonian Museum is appropriate.

On Tuesday, the Trump administration sent a letter to the Smithsonian ordering it to turn over records related to its operations, budget, and any current exhibits it has on display. Eight of the Smithsonian's 21 museums were impacted by the directive, including the Museum of American History, the Museum of African American History and Culture, and the Museum of the American Indian.