President Donald Trump made a startling claim about his administration's strikes on drug boats in international waters on Sunday while speaking to reporters at Palm Beach International Airport.

So far, the administration has conducted at least 21 strikes, killing around 90 people. The administration has claimed they are striking drug runners who are bringing drugs into the U.S., although it has provided scant evidence to support the claim. Reporting indicates that the Trump administration has also refused to arrest some survivors of the strikes, which has led experts to question the legality of the operations.

During a press conference on Sunday, Trump said he's instructed Secretary of State Marco Rubio to "keep Congress informed" about the strikes, but reiterated that "we don't need their approval" before conducting the operations.

"We like to keep Congress involved," Trump said. "I mean, we're stopping drug dealers and drugs from coming into our country. I actually told Marco and some of the other people...go to Congress and let them know we're not letting drugs come through Mexico; we're not letting them come through Venezuela, and let Congress know about it."

"We don't have to get their approval, but I think letting them know is good," he continued.

Prices have risen so high at fast food landmark McDonald's under President Donald Trump's leadership that " traffic from one of its core customer bases, low-income households, has dropped by double digits," reports the LA Times.

"The struggle of the Golden Arches — long synonymous with cheap food for the masses — reflects a larger trend upending the consumer economy and making 'affordability' a hot policy topic," writes Suhauna Hussein.

Executives of the fast-food chain say "the higher costs of restaurant essentials, such as beef and salaries, have pushed food prices up and driven away lower-income customers who are already being squeezed by the rising cost of groceries, clothes, rent and child care."

Analyst Adam Josephson says that prices are rising everywhere—especially at McDonald's.

"Happy Meals at McDonald’s are prohibitively expensive for some people, because there’s been so much inflation,” Josephson says.

Josephson and other economists point to Trump's K-shaped economy as the reason for shrinking traffic of low-income consumers.

Meanwhile, all is well for companies catering to higher-income consumers, like Delta Airlines, where data shows that while their main cabin revenue fell 5 percent for the June quarter compared to a year ago, premium ticket sales rose 5 percent, "highlighting the divide between affluent customers and those forced to be more economical," Hussein writes.

The same is happening with luxury brand hotels, where "revenue at brands including Four Seasons, Ritz-Carlton and St. Regis is up 2.9 percent so far this year, while economy hotels saw a 3.1 percent decline for the same period, according to industry tracker CoStar."

“There are examples everywhere you look,” Josephson says.

Consumer credit delinquency rates, Hussein explains, show how badly low-income households are suffering under Trump.

"Households making less than $45,000 annually are seeing 'huge year-over-year increases,' even as delinquency rates for high- and middle-income households have flattened and stabilized," says Rikard Bandebo, chief strategy officer and chief economist at VantageScore.

As rents have increased, the amount families have left over after paying for housing and utilities has fallen to record lows, Hussein notes.

“It’s getting tougher and tougher every month for low-income households to make ends meet,” Bandebo says.

Prices at fast-food restaurants are skyrocketing, too, up 3.2 percent year over year, at a rate higher than inflation “and that’s climbing” according to Marisa DiNatale, an economist at Moody’s Analytics.

“It has always been the case that more well-off people have done better. But a lot of the economic and policy headwinds are disproportionately affecting lower-income households, and [McDonald’s losing low-income customers] is a reflection of that,” DiNatale says.

McDonald's has previously offered budget meals, and tried doing so last year, with a $5 deal for a McDouble or McChicken sandwich, small fries, small soft drink and four-piece McNuggets.

In January it offered a $1 menu item alongside an item bought for full price, and launched Extra Value Meals in early September, but, Hussein writes, it didn't "immediately cut through to customers."

DiNatale says companies are weary of passing along higher costs to customers, saying, "A lot of businesses are saying, we just don’t think consumers will stand for this. [Consumers] have been through years of higher prices, and there’s just very little tolerance for higher prices going forward.

Bill Pulte, Director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA), seems to get along very well with President Donald Trump and that, reports The Daily Beast, is rattling MAGA Republican feathers.

Pulte, writes Will Neal, "has reportedly made such a song and dance of pandering to the president that it’s starting to drive other aides insane."

Pulte's stunts, he writes, "using 'Ghostbusters'-themed posters as props in exchanges" with Trump, his habit of publicly bashing Trump opponents, and his emulating of the president's propensity to go off on "bizarre tangents during meetings with others," has led insiders to refer to him as "Little Trump."

Pulte made headlines most recently when he floated the idea of the federal government backing a 50-year loan program to address housing affordability.

When news broke that a team of ethics and investigations watchdogs had been fired at Fannie Mae, a government enterprise that helps keep the U.S. housing market stable, it was reported that investigators were "probing whether Pulte had improperly obtained sensitive mortgage data on key MAGA enemies, including New York Attorney General Letitia James," Neal explains.

The Wall Street Journal recently reported that Pulte has done all he can to please Trump, including making a donation of "several hundreds of thousands of dollars to the MAGA cause both ahead of last year’s presidential election and in previous election cycles," Neal writes.

Pulte was also seen supping with former Trump adviser Roger Stone late last year, and, Neal writes, "Pulte’s also been making an effort to get in Donald Trump Jr’s good graces."

Neal notes that there are reports that Pulte's MAGA opponents are "gathering something of a dossier" on his "perceived missteps in office," and "officials have told staffers to keep an eye out for Pulte and ensure he doesn’t approach Trump unattended."

Pulte isn't making many MAGA friends, Neal notes, pointing to the time he also got into a "tangle" with Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent at a recent dinner, where, according to Politico, he said he "heard Pulte was badmouthing him to the president behind his back, and became so angry he threatened to punch Pulte 'in the f—— face'."