KEENE - U.S. Senator Maggie Hassan joined WKBK's Dan Mitchell to discuss the rising costs that New Hampshire families are facing because of President Trump. In the interview, Senator Hassan highlighted the new Joint Economic Committee - Minority report that shows that New Hampshire families have spent $4,400 more on goods and services under President Trump.

In case you missed it, listen to Senator Hassan's interview hereand see below for some key moments:

Senator Hassan on what she's hearing from New Hampshire families: "Housing costs, grocery costs, energy, health care, those are all top of mind for people because those are the things you have to pay for... You've got to make that math work every month, and right now, it is not working for way too many people here in New Hampshire and around the country."

Senator Hassan on Trump's actions that drive up costs: "The hardest part about this for me in particular is knowing that Donald Trump's decisions to impose tariffs around the world and to go to war with Iran have made this problem worse. Some of the reasons that we're seeing these costs - not only some of the reasons, a lot of the reasons we're seeing these costs so high-are directly related to decisions that Donald Trump has made about the war, about refusing to extend tax cuts for people to pay for their ACA healthcare premiums, and tariffs. If he would reverse those things, or if Congress would vote to and pressure him to reverse those things and override vetoes if he made them, we could help bring costs down."

Senator Hassan on the bipartisan 21^st Century ROAD to Housing Act she helped pass: "I also want people to know with all the news about high costs, we did pass a bipartisan housing bill which has become law. And that bill, among other things, will keep Wall Street companies-big private equity companies-from buying [up] single-family homes. That should help with the supply of homes. It cuts red tape so that we can build more homes more quickly, and it also cuts the cost of manufactured housing, which is a critical component to increasing our housing supply. I want people to leave this conversation with an understanding that even in the midst of all this difficulty and this sense that the country's going in the wrong direction, we did find a way to get bipartisan work done to begin to increase the supply of housing in this country, which should help bring costs down."

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