Summary

Democratic lawmakers, led by Sen. Elizabeth Warren, criticized Trump for failing to address rising food costs despite campaign promises to lower prices “immediately.”

In a letter, they accused Trump of focusing on mass deportations and January 6 pardons instead of tackling grocery inflation, which rose 1.8% in 2024, with egg prices up 36.8%.

Trump’s administration defended its actions, citing efforts to reduce inflation by cutting energy costs.

  • NaibofTabr
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    371 month ago

    Hard to do anything in an elected government if you weren’t elected.

    • @Ensign_Crab
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      1 month ago

      This would hold a lot more weight if they had bothered to do jack shit when they were in office.

      • @Cornelius_Wangenheim
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        41 month ago

        Also hard to do anything when the people only give you 50 senators and 2 of them are Manchin and Sinema.

        • @Ensign_Crab
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          51 month ago

          We gave them the seats. As fucking always, they found the no votes. If we gave them all 100 seats, there would be 51 manchins.

          • @MutilationWave
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            21 month ago

            He’s been replaced by our former governor, a Trump loving Republican. What people don’t understand is that Manchin was the only Democrat capable of being elected to national office in West Virginia. Yeah he sucked hard, but you’ll never see another Democrat get elected in West Virginia outside of local office in the cities.

            • Queen HawlSera
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              21 month ago

              That sadly might be a good thing, a true enemy is better than a false friend.

              • @MutilationWave
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                21 month ago

                He at least voted majority with the party. Jim Justice will vote with Trump 100%

                • Queen HawlSera
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                  29 days ago

                  He did? I remember him basically voting “No” on everything.

                  Then demanding a bunch of compromises from Obama and voting no anyway despite being given everything asked for.

                  • @MutilationWave
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                    21 month ago

                    He did indeed vote with the Democrats the majority of the time. Sometimes, sometimes very important times, he and Krysten Sinema decided to fuck things up. This is why he was always in the news and you got that impression.

                    As always, if there were a few more votes this country would be on a very different trajectory.

    • NoneOfUrBusiness
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      41 month ago

      And they didn’t get elected because they spent the last four years crying and (mostly) not actually doing anything.

    • Verdant Banana
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      -281 month ago

      Roe v. Wade fell on Biden’s watch btw

        • @Peasley
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          -11 month ago

          The block button is a useful tool. You only have to see the troll once and they are gone forever!

          • @[email protected]
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            141 month ago

            Then they get to claim shit uncontested, which comes off like you have no rebuttal so they must be right. Intelligent, educated, mindful, and honest people will know better, but that combo seems to be shrinking in supply virtually each and every day.

      • Queen HawlSera
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        31 month ago

        This, he had the chance to codify abortion into law, he didn’t take it.