GOP lawmakers and strategists are seizing on news Thursday that the economy expanded at an anemic pace in the third quarter to slam Biden and the Democrats, accusing them of bungling the recovery from the pandemic recession and then piling on trillions of dollars in spending programs.

Republicans plan to put economic issues front and center in the 2022 midterm campaigns by highlighting the soaring price of gasoline and some groceries and blaming Democrats for driving up inflation. It’s a double-barreled attack designed to zero in on the pain American consumers are feeling while ginning up opposition to legislation that Biden is hoping will become the linchpin of his economic agenda.

Voters are “sick and tired of paying higher prices for everything because of these big-government Democrats and their reckless spending,” said Rep. Tom Emmer (R-Minn.), who chairs the National Republican Congressional Committee. “We’re going to win back the majority on those kitchen-table economic issues that Democrats always fail to deliver on.”