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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@lemmy.world
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    2 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

    • Boozilla@sh.itjust.works
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      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.

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      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.

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      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.

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

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