Marcy Brown lives in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. She and her family have had to make a lot of changes to their lifestyle in the past couple months. They canceled streaming services, her husband has picked up extra shifts at work, and their daughters decide to live at home rather than live on her college campus. They've had to make all of these changes because of how expensive it's become to live.

We usually buy our eggs in five dozen cartons, if that makes any sense.

The flats of five dozen or boxes of five dozen.

And what I was paying $18 for three months ago, I paid $30 for this month.

Marcy hasn't just been noticing the price of eggs going up.

It's other things, too. It's now cheaper for her to buy shrimp than hamburger because the price

of beef is up. Her coffee is almost double the price it was last year. And now that President

Trump is proposing tariffs on Mexico and Canada. She's worried that it'll just get harder for her family.

Look at how much produce comes into our country from Mexico. I mean, there's produce. You can't even get American grown anymore.

And, you know, you sit there and you say, oh, it's a tax on the country that gets passed on to the consumer.

You just made it harder for the little person gets passed on to the consumer. You just made it

harder for the little person to be able to afford something. Marcy didn't vote for anyone

for president. She didn't like either candidate. But now, just months into Trump's presidency,

she's worried that his policies are making her life worse.

So it's still very early in President Trump's second term, but we're already starting to see changes ripple through the economy. We saw new tariffs go into effect last week. Some of those

were pulled back. Some of them weren't. There's a lot of uncertainty out there.

That's my colleague, Ababatri. She reports on the economy for the

post. And at the same time, Elon Musk's Doge Service has been laying off federal workers,

cutting off funding, just, you know, shuddering entire agencies. And that's having real ripple

effects as well. Over the weekend, President Trump declined to rule out the fear that

we might fall into a recession soon. He's been saying that there's going to be a little bit

of disturbance in the economy as he overhauls things and that Americans are just going to have

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