{"id":2355706,"date":"2024-10-16T13:08:02","date_gmt":"2024-10-16T17:08:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-says-he-will-cut-energy-bills-in-half-during-fox-town-hall\/"},"modified":"2024-10-16T13:10:41","modified_gmt":"2024-10-16T17:10:41","slug":"trump-says-he-will-cut-energy-bills-in-half-during-fox-town-hall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-says-he-will-cut-energy-bills-in-half-during-fox-town-hall\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Says He Will Cut Energy Bills In &#8216;Half&#8217; During Fox Town Hall"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftrump-says-he-will-cut-energy-bills-in-half-during-fox-town-hall%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2355706&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>In a\u200d recent Fox News <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/joe-biden-knows-he-messed-up-on-fracking-at-debate-and-is-now-doing-damage-control-the-daily-wire\/\" title=\"Joe Biden Knows He Messed Up On Fracking At Debate And Is Now Doing Damage Control | The Daily Wire\">town hall<\/a> aimed\u200d at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/heres-what-the-left-is-getting-wrong-on-floridas-election-laws\/\" title=\"Here\u2019s What The Left Is Getting Wrong On Florida\u2019s Election Laws\">women voters<\/a>, former President Donald Trump promised\u2062 to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/europe-burns-cash-to-help-businesses-in-deepening-energy-crisis\/\" title=\"Europe burns cash to help businesses in deepening energy crisis\">halve energy bills<\/a> within a year of his potential return to\u200b office. He emphasized that interest rates and\u2062 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-administration-proposes-energy-efficiency-standards-on-water-heaters\/\" title=\"Biden Admin suggests energy efficiency rules for water heaters.\">energy\u2064 costs<\/a> are fundamental to addressing inflation, \u2064asserting \u2062that high energy expenses\u200d are a primary driver of\u2063 the current \u2064inflation\u2063 crisis. Trump \u200dcriticized\u2063 the\u200b Biden administration&#8217;s shift away from\u2062 his energy policies, \u2063claiming it has resulted in record \u200bgas \u200dprices and high inflation. He suggested that \u2062if energy bills are significantly reduced, it would lead to\u2062 broader economic relief. The town hall was \u2062moderated by Harris Faulkner, who questioned Trump\u2063 on\u2064 how \u200clowering \u200cenergy costs\u200c would contribute to wider price reductions in the economy.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Former President Donald Trump pledged to cut energy bills in half during a Fox News town hall with women voters aired Wednesday. <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Everything starts with interest rates,&rdquo; Trump said, adding that a solution to the inflation crisis also &ldquo;starts with energy.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;m making this pledge here,&rdquo; Trump said. &ldquo;But I have made it a couple of days before,&rdquo; Trump teased. &ldquo;Your energy bill, which is a very big bill, will be down 50 percent starting one year from Jan. 20.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Harris Faulkner, who moderated the hour-long forum, pressed the Republican presidential nominee on how reductions in energy costs &ldquo;trickle down&rdquo; to reduce prices across the economy. <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The interest rates have come down and the inflation rate has come down, but it&rsquo;s like we are going uphill constantly with these price increases,&rdquo; Faulkner said.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The interest doesn&rsquo;t come down very much,&rdquo; Trump said. &ldquo;Everything is revolved around energy. That&rsquo;s what caused inflation, energy, more than anything else including their stupid spending on the Green New Deal. They spent money, so much money, and that caused it also. But the biggest thing was they went away from my energy policy.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris promptly forfeited Trump&rsquo;s strategy of American energy dominance upon inauguration in 2021 with <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/09\/26\/if-kamala-were-committed-to-american-energy-shed-lift-her-administrations-lng-export-ban\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">regulations<\/a> designed to curb U.S. fuel production. Americans suffered months of record <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/06\/10\/gas-prices-hit-record-4-99-as-runaway-inflation-kills-consumer-confidence\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">gas prices<\/a> and the most expensive outbreak of <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/04\/12\/bidenflation-reaches-four-decade-high-after-climbing-8-5-percent-since-last-march\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">inflation<\/a> in 40 years just one year into the Democrats&rsquo; administration.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;If your energy bills come down to half, which they will,&rdquo; Trump said, &ldquo;It&rsquo;s going to bring everything down with it.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Trump&rsquo;s all<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/swing-state-scorecard-harris-loses-battleground-edge-three-weeks-out-washington-examiner\/\" title=\"Swing-state scorecard: Harris loses battleground edge three weeks out - Washington Examiner\">-women town hall<\/a> in Georgia aired on Fox News just hours before another <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/04\/12\/bidenflation-reaches-four-decade-high-after-climbing-8-5-percent-since-last-march\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">town hall <\/a>will play on Univision with Hispanic voters Wednesday night. During the all-women forum, Trump was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/trump-vows-end-all-sanctuary-cities-restore-normalcy-faulkner-focus-town-hall-female-voters\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">asked<\/a> how he would keep Americans safe after University of Georgia nursing student Laken Riley was violently murdered while out for a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2024\/02\/25\/us\/uga-augusta-university-student-killing-monday\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">jog<\/a> by a suspected illegal alien.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;My son is a Georgia Bulldog. He was on campus the day Laken Riley was murdered,&rdquo; said a Fox town hall participant. &ldquo;Terrifying for all those kids, right? I wanted to know &hellip; how quickly in a sanctuary city &ndash; like they&rsquo;re calling Athens, Georgia &ndash; how quickly can you remove those threats to our societies that our children can go out on a run as they rightfully should be able to do in a park in the daytime by themselves?&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We&rsquo;re going to end all sanctuary cities in the United States, and we&rsquo;re going to go back to normalcy,&rdquo; Trump responded. &ldquo;And we&rsquo;re going to have law and order.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>      Tristan Justice is the western correspondent for The Federalist and the author of Social Justice Redux, a conservative newsletter on culture, health, and wellness. He has also written for The Washington Examiner and The Daily Signal. His work has also been featured in Real Clear Politics and Fox News. Tristan graduated from George Washington University where he majored in political science and minored in journalism. Follow him on Twitter at @JusticeTristan or contact him at Tristan@thefederalist.com. Sign up for Tristan&#8217;s email newsletter <a href=\"https:\/\/socialjusticeredux.substack.com\/about\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump vowed to halve energy bills during a Fox News town hall<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":494,"featured_media":2355710,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Trump-Fox-Town-Hall.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[43147,43148,3634],"class_list":["post-2355706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist","tag-energy-bills","tag-fox-town-hall","tag-trump"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Trump-Fox-Town-Hall.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2355706","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/494"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2355706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2355706\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2355710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2355706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2355706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2355706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}