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Americans are anxious about spending for the holiday season as prices rise for everyday items and specialty goods in the first year of President Donald Trump's second term in office.

The Guardian spoke to readers across the U.S. who said higher costs for necessities were cutting into the amount of money they felt comfortable spending on gifts for family and friends, and many of them specifically blamed the president and his economic policies for their reticence.

Food pantries across the United States are forgoing fresh produce in favor of cheap processed foods after budget cuts from the Trump administration have significantly reduced the amount of federal aid being directed toward food assistance, according to reports.

One such food pantry is Manna from Above, a food pantry just outside of Atlanta, Georgia, which has had to drastically reduce both the quantity and quality of its food to meet the increasing demand exacerbated by less federal assistance.

More than 200 judges in hundreds of cases have rejected the Trump administration’s attempts to lock up immigrants facing possible deportation, and they're getting sick of hearing challenges to those "illegal" efforts, according to reports.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement set off a tidal wave of emergency lawsuits July 8 with a policy change that led to their targets being arrested at workplaces, courthouses and immigration check-ins, and at least 225 judges in more than 700 cases have ruled against President Donald Trump's administration – compared with just eight who sided with the new mass detention policy, reported Politico.

There is one man in the history of the U.S. who can show us how to navigate past the era of Donald Trump, according to a former Republican Party insider.

Political strategist Steve Schmidt, an independent political strategist who worked on former President George W. Bush's campaign, flagged a recent James Carville piece in which the legendary Democratic consultant argued that it "is abundantly clear even to me that the Democratic Party must now run on the most populist economic platform since the Great Depression."

Politico reporter Daniel Lippman suggested Friday that the 190,000 Afghans that had immigrated to the United States since its 2021 withdrawal should not carry the blame for the Afghan migrant suspected of shooting two National Guard members Wednesday, a suggestion that set one Republican strategist into a rampage.

“I do think it's important that we don't paint too broad of a brush to label every Afghan who came in through this program – Operation Allies Welcome – with the crimes of one deranged individual, someone who had mental health issues and was evil,” Lippman said, appearing on Newsmax. “The vast majority of Afghans who come to this country, they actually love America.”