As temperatures soared on a sweltering July day in New York City, shoppers at Queens’s largest mall said they were feeling the heat – of rising prices.

“T-shirts, basic t-shirts, underwear, the basic necessities – the prices are going up,” said Clarence Johnson, 48, who was visiting the Macy’s at the Queen Center mall to pick up shirts he ordered online.

As Donald Trump presses on with his trade wars, retailers have been passing price increases onto customers. Department stores – which rely on a variety of imported goods and materials, from shoes to t-shirts – have particularly been scrambling to deal with the flux in prices.

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    When you elect a party that doesn’t believe that the government works, it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.

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      It’s true. And I’ve listened to them make that complaint all my life. But what’s now abundantly clear is, that when they said “government” doesn’t work, what they meant was “democracy.”