Yesterday:

Congressman Mark Alford
[November 12, 2026]

🇺🇸 Democrats campaigned on affordability, but where are their solutions to bring down costs for hardworking Americans?
I joined Miranda Khan on Miranda’s Right on KCMO Talk Radio to discuss Democrats’ focus on impeachment instead of affordability, why I oppose impeaching Secretary Pete Hegseth, continued pressure on Iran, and making the VA the GOLD STANDARD of healthcare for our veterans.
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Some of the responses:

The Big Beautiful Bill you voted for comes due in January.
You will tout it as a tax cut. It is for billionaires but Missouri children will go hungry. Cuts to WIC, food assistance/ EBT and school lunches.

Wasn’t the Hegseth Impeachment Articles written and introduced by a Republican?

Yep.

and before the midterms. Mike Johnson sent everyone home to avoid the vote

Where are YOUR solutions?

You know January is in 1 and 1/2 months…😉

Where are YOURS???

How about lifting the tariffs, tax the rich, retract the billionaires tax cuts, end Iranian war

I believe the Dems stated that many, many times. But, Alford is only appealing to his ignorant MAGA base who don’t watch anything besides Fox.

they don’t wanna do anything to actually solve any problems. They just wanna talk about how they’re going to. And offer absolutely no path forward all while stealing everything that isn’t nailed down.

The Republican Congress passed The Take Care of America’s Veterans Act (H.R. 9237)—on Veteran’s Day, November 11, 2026!
The bill contains provisions estimated to reduce future veterans’ disability compensation by $57 billion over 10 years
Ironic don’t you think? Republicans screwed veterans over on the very day established to honor them.
Try harder Mark. Actions speak.

Isn’t is disgusting how they name bills that make it sound good, but in reality, they’re just a big “fuck you?”
-Right To Work
-One Big Beautiful Bill
-The Patriot Act
-The Lower Energy Costs Act
If you look up all of these bills, they favor Big Corporations and Big Government and screw over the average American.

my husband a Vietnam Veteran, was denied benefits for agent orange, but ..thanks to President Biden pact act, after all these years, he’s finally getting some disability for it!! Now you have a president that wants to take disability away, make it make sense 😡

you mean trump right?

Hell, they haven’t even been sworn in yet. Also Trump ran in 2024 on lowering prices and no new wars how about YOU deliver on that?

Put your listening ears on, I have read where the Democrats plan to vote to undo broad import tariffs starting with Canada goods like steel, aluminum, dairy and household appliances, expand the number of drugs subject to federal price negotiations, reverse Medicaid funding cuts, reinstate premium tax credits for ACA, reassert Congress’s authority over setting import taxes to lower costs of groceries, fertilizer, & building materials just to name a few. Also read plans on housing costs, tax incentives and investor limits, buyer and renter aid, raising Federal minimum wage to $15.00 and the list goes on…..kind of odd how an old woman (me) seems to be better informed on their platform to help ensure affordability. 25th Amendment, Section 4 works for me. Iran operated under the 1968 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, this is a senseless war that Benjamin Netanyahu & Trump started to takeover the Gaza Strip to develop it as the “Riviera of the Middle East”.

Just stop the tariffs- end the war and see what happens

I guess if they just undo everything republicans have done in the last 2 years, prices will drop 10%.

Read the room

90% of mid term voters said corruption in current administration was crucial or major factor.
Investigate selling early access to social media posts for stock market info. Accepting a Qatari jet. Accepting half a billion dollars for family crypto from UAE sheikh. Son getting Pentagon contract for drone company they just bought stake in. That’s just tip of iceberg

Don’t forget the “bribe jet”.

When democrats reinstate my benefits YOU cut on Veterans Day it will help my affordability problem.

Shouldve been voted out…..

I know you like to ignore me, Mark Alford, but vets and VA employees deserve answers for exactly how you’re going to make the VA the gold standard for vet care when you and your party destroyed the VA. Kansas City is still short hundreds of staff members. It takes a year to get in with some specialists because your party chased off a lot of really talented and effective direct care VA staff. Providers are literally working out of their cars in the parking lot because there’s not enough office space to accommodate the RTO you fools pushed out without a plan. Please explain how you’re going to fix the damage you’ve done to the VA. We are all due answers

Um, they haven’t even taken office yet. Republicans are still in control and we still haven’t heard any Republican plans to bring down prices. Thanks for showing your ignorance.

Didn’t Trump say he’d bring prices down “day 1”, yet EVERYTHING is more expensive 2 years later?? And he said he “didn’t care” about nothing being affordable?? Where’s your outrage for you dear leader who lied to everyone? Who the hell keeps electing your stupid ass!?

Where are you and the republicans plan? All prices have done since Trump got back in office was go up. Where are your plans for healthcare, or your concept of a plan. Maybe the blue wave was more of a reflection on the total incompetence of Trump and all you republicans support for it. Your boot licking ass should have been voted out as well. We are so sick of the lies, greed and incompetence you and your party have become. This isn’t even a shell of what the Republican Party use to be. I always had some disagreements with republican policies but at least you had elected officials that could somewhat be respected. The way you have adapted to the MAGA narrative and supported Trump through all his disrespectful comments and actions is deplorable. As an independent I always had values that leaned to both sides but now I agree with nothing this party has to offer.

He’s delusional and so is every ass hat that let him keep his job.

Like
Tariffs
War
Cutting Education
Yeah those worked.

right next to the perfect call transcript, the pedo files, the GOP healthcare concepts of a plan, the orange menaces tax returns, the plan for a day 1 ceasefire in Gaza and Ukraine, the missing Venezuelan gold/oil, the nuke from Iran that was 2 weeks away that we’ve obliterated beyond repair every week for the last 37 weeks…I mean I could go on, but let’s hear from the guys who’ve been in the majority for the last 4 years and passed OBBA that’s about to screw tons of working class Missourians over…but yeah. Let’s talk about the Democrats who aren’t in power yet and why the prices of things haven’t come down yet.
Again. Alford is either disingenuous or inept, possibly both. But neither of those qualities are what you should look for in an elected rep.

Alford you are pathetic!!

How did this empty get elected in the first place?

But where are their solutions?!? Are you serious? Let’s talk about who started this and who enables him at every turn. I’ll help you since you and your maga comrades have zero self awareness. It’s you, Mark.

It’s a shame you didn’t come up with anything for the past several years.

GOP has had two years and tried nothing at all. Things have gotten markedly worse. I think about that every time I’m at the pump and the grocery store.

So now that you and the Republicans have screwed everything up, you point the finger at the Democrats for not being able to fix it?

That’s their plan.

Besides licking Trump’s toes, what have you done while in Washington for the last two years?

It’s possible to do two things at the same time Mark. Not like you, avoiding town halls and obstructing real legislation, wait… I guess you can do two things at the same time too!

Well, a lot of the most harmful things impacting affordability in the “big beautiful bill” start to hit next year, with things like my student loan repayment forgiveness being entirely thrown out the window as a direct result of legislation you and your RNC colleagues rammed through. Worried that will make my student loan payments skyrocket.

Stop the stupid tariffs and the stupider war. There’s a start.

Your solution of being a Trump sycophant didn’t work.

Ummm….they haven’t taken control yet Mark, but we trust they can do BOTH—clean up the messes left in the wake of unprecedented corruption that YOUR party took ZERO action to address, AND work to make life more affordable. But why don’t you talk to someone in Congress instead of already gearing up for 2028 by spouting off on the news? News folks don’t have lawmaking power, you and your colleagues do. Why don’t you roll up your sleeves and actually get to work. Maybe start by talking with Elizabeth Warren, she ALWAYS has a plan and has a track record of reaching across the aisle.

Shut your mouth. You never cared about us or tried to
Lower prices. You voted for alll this bad shit that’s happening and now you want to try to blame the Dems. You’re an idiot and will lose your job In 2028. Just wait. Loser (thats what Trump calls people. I learned that from him)

Where are yours? You guys have had the last 2 years to do something.

So why is socialized medicine good for our veterans but not good for the rest of Americans, Mark?
You can’t have it both ways.
Stop being an affordability hypocrite!

You had 2 years of a unified government, but decided to use it to lick the boot of the guy that called affordability a Democrat hoax. Until you have a plan and get it out of the House, you can kindly stfu about lowering the cost of living for everybody.

If you’re the solution, you sure haven’t done shit yet

Trump and his complicit horde of stooges are the problem, removing you types is a big step in fixing the problems that you people have caused.

Mark is wrong again.

Where is the Republicans solution to Healthcare costs. You’ve had a total of 6 yrs under trump to implement something an another 4 under Biden to come up with one and you haven’t so shut the fuck up you pitiful little boy. Your actions, or lack there of has spoken volumes you waste of dna.

That post again, “Congressman doesn’t know how time works”.

Suddenly you’re worried about affordability. Your man Trump said affordability is scam, fake news. He says he loves inflation, and high gas & diesel prices are okay because the Iran non-war has eliminated their nuclear weapon which no one can verify. Of course he says he’s keeping 1/4 of Venezuela oil sales to his personal bank account in Qatar, he likes the high oil prices.
Nice try faking your constituents out trying to say you’re worried about affordability when you’ve blindly signed every Trump legislation causing the problem.
Will you be voting yes on the Epstein discharge petition in the House?
Oh, that’s right, you voted yes before on DOJ to release all remaining Epstein documents and didn’t care the 12/19/25 release date hasn’t been met.
Why am I reading you voted to reduce future VA benefits to the toon of $57 billion, per Veteran support groups?

Congressman Alford, your party has been in charge for 22 1/2 months – what have you been doing all this time? And you are blaming the Democrats who haven’t even taken charge yet? Help me understand your complaint please… I’ll wait.

Why are you all so worried about the Dems? The Republicans have done absolutely NOTHING but take away everything possible from everyone with all kinds of cuts to programs that people actually need. Somenody has to come up with some ideas because the Republicans have shown without a doubt that they have nothing but corruption and greed on their minds. So stop acting like you all are doing something great. You had your chance and blew it. Let someone else take over who might actually do the job right this time around.

They haven’t even taken office yet
Are you really this stupid in real life

Just when I think you can’t get any more ridiculous. What an embarrassment to this state.

The Democrats who ran on affordability aren’t in office yet… You’ve been in office for a minute… WTF have you been doing?

They want to reinstate the SNAP and health insurance cuts. They want to cut off anymore war funding so it can come to a close and prices will come down. I guess like all other magats you don’t watch real news.

Where were yours, bitch? You’ve BEEN in office and haven’t done shit for Missouri.

A Republican brought up the vote to impeach Hegseth you vegetable.

You oppose impeaching Hegseth because you are a MAGA bootlicker. You have always done as you were told, fecklsss.

Solutions? To bring down costs? They did — don’t start a war with Iran so that the Iranian government doesn’t shut down the Strait of Hormuz!
Talk about an ELEPHANT in the room.

You spent the last 2 years controlling all 3 branches of the federal government and did nothing. Republicans controlled all 3 branches of Missouri government and did nothing. You worked for your donors and not for people. Democrats very well could do the same with power, but they at least sort of pretend to want to give people things like afforfable healthcare. This election showed that everyone is tired of the corruption and bullshit. Any party that shows that they want to work for people over donors has a chance to rule for a long time. Unfortunately, you have never even pretended to be for that

STFU. You’ve had years. Where’s yours?
Thought so

Get rid of random tariffs and end the war. Or, you could just tell your cult leader that. 🤷‍♂️

So you went on the show to bash them for not having a plan for affordability, and didn’t at any point in time talk about what plan you have for it? You can’t be serious 😂

Oh, Mark! How did you vote on Veterans Day? Let me guess….

Such a whiny little bitch. You are so clueless. End the self-imposed Republican war(the one you voted for) Reduce / eliminate tariffs (taxes) the tariffs you abdicated your constitutional responsibilities on, make health care more than a concept of a plan, I guess you have not heard this as you are tone deaf

They aren’t in office yet. You’ve had two years. You’ve done nothing but jump whenever you’re told to jump. That’s not leadership. That’s a yes man.

Where the hell are YOUR solutions…. You literally caused this crisis and you somehow think you get to ask this… you mi$erable pos! YOU did this… to millions.
This comment is like choosing to burn your own house down and blaming the fire department for not saving it for you. Zero accountability
Democrats have half solved the problem already by stopping you a$$holes from making any more corrupt and terrible decisions. Thank god

“They can’t solve the problems I helped to create before they’re in power” is a WILD take lol

Can you please stop with the divisiveness? So sick of it. Any chance you could work towards solutions that actually benefit all of YOUR constituents instead?

Congressman Mark Alford, telling lies still?? The Democrats are focused on affordability AND oversight responsibility over the executive branch, the latter of which has been totally ignored by you Republicans for two years. 🤷

Republicans campaigned on affordability two years ago. You’ve had control of all three branches of government since then and have made the economy worse. You need to sit down.

Little Mark you are still in control till January. And STFU about cost like all of a sudden you give a damn. Get out of the way clown.

Better than the big shitty bill you passed to fuck the American taxpayer, so let’s talk affordability mark

Are you fucking serious with this???????
The election was JUST LAST WEEK! They haven’t even been sworn in, yet!
And, we’re still fearful that YOU will participate in some sort of coup to prevent their swearing in!
WTF did YOU do on the issue of affordability??? NOTHING!!!!!
My god…you have learned NOTHING.
What a fucking, disgusting jackass you are.
And, Democrats can walk and chew gum at the same time.

Shooting innocent fishermen in the Caribbean is a high crime, Mark. You stupid fuck.

Very soon you will be irrelevant. But sure, keep talking maga bullet points. It’ll be fun to watch.

Was he ever relevant?

Where’s your outrage about Trump and Lutwick literally ignoring a Chinese spy?

You did absolutely nothing about affordability. Democrats aren’t even in charge yet. They can focus on corruption and affordability at the same time.

They seem upset.