It feels like ancient history now, but when he was running for president last year, Donald Trump promised over and over that he would lower costs “on Day 1.”

After he was elected and an interviewer pointed out that his policies would drive up costs, Trump said he “couldn’t care less.”

And now, it’s Day 135 and costs are up. People are paying more for gasoline. More for housing. More for groceries. More for eggs. More for baby strollers -- or as Donald Trump calls it, “the thing you carry the babies around in.”

So what are Trump and the Republicans doing about that? Working on ways to make costs even higher.

His rather Big and Ugly Bill will rip health care away from 14 million people. It will slash programs that help people pay for their groceries. It will cancel clean energy programs.

And instead of standing up and saying what Trump is doing is wrong, Republicans in Congress are suffering a major medical emergency. It seems that every one of them has had their spine removed. Evidently, the only movement that Congressional Republicans can now perform is to bow low, to kiss the Earth beneath the feet of Donald Trump.

Our fight to make our government work for everyone — not billionaires — is going to be tested. This is a moment to throw everything we’ve got into this fight. And that’s what I’m going to do. If, and only if, you’re able, please pitch in $28 or anything you can to support our campaign that fights for working families.

This is a critical moment in our country. This is the moment that Democrats have the chance to show the American people who we are and what we will fight for — and to throw everything we’ve got into stopping this plan from passing. And I’m going to fight hard for this.

And every single Republican who will vote to raise costs for families to finance tax giveaways for billionaires must be held accountable at the ballot box — and that work starts now.

We’ve done this before. Back in 2017, Donald Trump and the Republicans tried to rip health care away from Americans. John McCain famously voted no at the last second, and we saved health care for millions of Americans. That was a huge victory, but there was more. The energy from that fight helped build a massive blue wave in the midterms that put Democrats back in control of the House and set us up to beat Trump and the Republicans in 2020.

We have that same opportunity today.

Trump’s Big Ugly Bill is not law. Not yet. It still has to go through the Senate, and it may have to go back through the House again. So now is the time to raise hell.

If, and only if, you’re able, please pitch in $28 or anything you can to power our fight for working people in the Senate.