Democratic lawmakers slam Trump for not making good on promise to 'immediately' lower food prices amid egg shortage
Source: NBC News
Jan. 27, 2025, 5:00 AM EST / Updated Jan. 27, 2025, 9:29 AM EST
Donald Trump vowed to slash grocery prices as soon as he took office, yet he has barely addressed the cost of food in the whirlwind of executive orders he signed in his first week, Sen. Elizabeth Warren and other Democratic lawmakers wrote in a searing letter. The letter, addressed to Trump, accuses the president of backtracking on a campaign promise to lower supermarket bills starting on Day 1 of his term.
During your campaign, you repeatedly promised you would lower food prices immediately if elected president, read the letter, which was sent to Trump on Sunday evening and shared first with NBC News. But during your first week of office you have instead focused on mass deportations and pardoning January 6 attackers.
Trump made inflation and the cost of food a hallmark of his run for a second presidential term, displaying everything from a teeny box of Tic Tacs at a rally in North Carolina to entire tables full of groceries outside his Bedminster, New Jersey, golf club to express his commitment to lowering voters grocery bills.
But the scores of executive orders Trump has signed since Inauguration Day only briefly touch on food, Warren, D-Mass., said in the letter, which was co-written by Rep. Jim McGovern, D-Mass., and signed by a total of 20 Democrats. Your sole action on costs was an executive order that contained only the barest mention of food prices, and not a single specific policy to reduce them, they wrote, citing a Trump administration memo that commits to helping with Americans cost of living by eliminating harmful, coercive climate policies driving up the costs of food and fuel.
Read more: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/democrats-slam-trump-not-making-good-promise-lower-food-prices-rcna189179
Link to Sen. Elizabeth Warren PRESS RELEASE - Warren, McGovern, Lawmakers Blast Trumps Inaction on High Egg Prices
Link to LETTER (PDF) - https://www.warren.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/letter_to_trump_re_egg_prices.pdf
JBTaurus83
(21 posts)This is the correct path forward for Democrats to win a house majority or 270 electoral votes. We have seen from past campaigns against the pig, a segment of American voters are too stupid to care about democracy, the environment, human rights etc.
Dumb it down and talk about prices and cost of living non-stop. Dont get caught up talking about his tweets or other horrendous policies, kill him on prices/cost of living. Everyone can relate, and as the pig has shown, you dont even need to have sound policies. Id hammer him on not allowing the negotiation of drug prices, and Dems should put forward bills to break up rental property ownership by hedge funds, bills to include breakfast and lunch at schools, etc.
OldBaldy1701E
(6,965 posts)But, we need to do more than simply 'slam' his policies and failures, we need to go on the offensive. Every time that orange gibbon releases something, there needs to be a huge number of democratic talking. heads to go out and constantly insult and degrade the very idea that anything he does is little more than grift the country and help his rich, sycophantic friends. I mean every utterance he makes needs to be attacked and insulted. Sure, it may come off as little petty, but that is where we are. If we keep looking down our noses at these tactics, we will be allowing them to keep the upper hand. Yes, the average American is easily misled. Time to start pointing that out every chance we get. Not by trying to say that we are a stupid people on average, but to say that anyone who is fooled by their attempts at trying to sound human is. Marginalize those idiots.
Make sure that the insinuation is that we need to stop being led by celebrity and start being led by competent leadership.
Raven123
(6,251 posts)With the headlines: Did you forget Mr. President? Or something similar. Just use his own words against him.
Alice B.
(302 posts)bucolic_frolic
(48,219 posts)off-the-clock
(243 posts)Food and housing because they were promised is something Americans can agree on so social media is the way to push back. Breaking laws is another problem and deserves a response also maybe pushing on the Senate and House on top of msm.
I agree that responding to everything in this pipeline of sewage is not productive for getting our country back to a sane legal and safe path.
Much thanks for the discussion.
newdeal2
(1,381 posts)Biden and Carter certainly got screwed by inflation.
If Dems want to speed up the Trump presidency's demise, focusing on economic issues is a good plan IMO.
sakabatou
(43,671 posts)There's bird flu to contend with, making poultry expensive. Then there's tariffs and the rounding up of workers, making food prices go up. Price controls for medicine was taken away, making them expensive too.
Clouds Passing
(3,418 posts)Harker
(15,402 posts)Simeon Salus
(1,368 posts)usonian
(15,378 posts)Daily toll on the economy:
https://www.democraticunderground.com/111699331
Keep it kicked, please.