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.

  • @[email protected]
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    121 hours ago

    Are you trying to say that people being fired from Nvidia is more important than egg prices? Maybe let me check how many employees they have. Seems to be about 30k. Idk man comparing human experiences at this scale gets pretty sticky. Maybe it’s just confirmation bias, but egg prices and by extension grocery prices are probably more important to the average person. Infact they even affect Nvidia employees that are fired.

    • @UnderpantsWeevil
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      221 hours ago

      Are you trying to say that people being fired from Nvidia is more important than egg prices?

      People from Nvidia, from Facebook, from Microsoft, from all the attendant businesses surrounding those firms.

      Compound this with the consequences of money invested into AI at both the private and public levels that was supposed to supplement neglected spending in basic science R&D on the ground that AI could do R&D better (because it’s God? Idk)

      So there’s a knock on effect to egg prices, given that the egg shortage is driven by Bird Flu and we’re neglecting Bird Flu to build AI God.