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.

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    1 day ago

    Yeah cuz dems really did a good job of holding down grocery prices and stopping price gouging

    Fucking stop grandstanding and actually do something useful.

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      23 hours ago

      You see, when Democrats hold both chambers and the presidency they are powerless against their centrists, but when Republicans do the Democrats are also powerless to stop Democratic centrists from defecting and cancelling out the last 3 Republicans with a vague sense of ethics.

      Weird how that works.

      (The point is the government is thoroughly controlled by conservatives either way)

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        23 hours ago

        Yeah i want them to actually put up a fight not just roll over and let trump tickle their bellies.

        But nah we will just get 4 more years of them saying “see we aren’t as bad as that” even though they did fuck all when they had power except launch a genocide