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.

  • @P1k1e
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    289 days ago

    What’s with the fucking eggs, why does everyone focus on fucking eggs. There’s more food than God damn eggs for fucks sake

    • @Wogi
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      319 days ago

      Speak for yourself heathen.

      I eat eggs.

      I would rather starve than eat something other then eggs.

      Meat? Gross. Vegetables? Ick. Sugar? Fuck off.

      Eggs. Just eggs.

        • @Wogi
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          48 days ago

          Don’t egg me on man

        • @Wogi
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          48 days ago

          I find puns to be eggregious

        • @Wogi
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          28 days ago

          I have an eggumenical attachment.

          • @P1k1e
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            08 days ago

            Never figured my rage induced post would spurr such eggceptional responses

            • @Wogi
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              08 days ago

              You’ll just have to learn to eggcept that people love eggs

    • @BigBenis
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      269 days ago

      Just guessing, but eggs are a major staple in the average American diet that don’t have a whole lot of comparable alternatives like grain or milk. So when there’s a shortage or prices go up, people don’t have something to replace it with so it’s more apparent that they’re missing out on something and that gets attention.

    • @TheHotze
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      109 days ago

      They are particularly high right now due to non economic reasons (disease).

      • @sudo42
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        68 days ago

        Everything is particularly high right now due to non-economic reason: oligopoly and greed.

        • @[email protected]
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          18 days ago

          Authoritarian reasons: thousands of businesses forcibly shut down a few years ago, leading to massive market consolidation, leading to less competition, leading to the greed being unchecked.

          Greed didn’t recently appear on the scene. Attributing the inflation to greed is like attributing Ukraine war deaths to gunpowder.

    • @[email protected]
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      9 days ago

      Never mind, on the next election we’ll vote for someone else, to lower the price of vegetables at that time

      • @5too
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        99 days ago

        Next election?

    • @[email protected]
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      58 days ago

      It’s a staple used in a fuckton of recipes in addition to being a go-to breakfast item. Many Americans stupidly ignore politics, but still pay a lot of attention to the prices of common goods like milk, eggs, bread, gasoline, etc. Folks are living hand to mouth because the billionaires hoard all the money.

    • @dx1
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      39 days ago

      Reminds me of the Republicans with the “raw milk”.

      • @_stranger_
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        39 days ago

        I wish they’d drink all the raw milk they can get their hands on.