{"id":2395573,"date":"2025-01-27T12:12:00","date_gmt":"2025-01-27T17:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/democrats-blast-trump-for-not-lowering-grocery-prices-immediately-washington-examiner\/"},"modified":"2025-01-27T12:13:43","modified_gmt":"2025-01-27T17:13:43","slug":"democrats-blast-trump-for-not-lowering-grocery-prices-immediately-washington-examiner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/democrats-blast-trump-for-not-lowering-grocery-prices-immediately-washington-examiner\/","title":{"rendered":"Democrats blast Trump for not lowering grocery prices \u2018immediately\u2019 &#8211; Washington Examiner"},"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\">24<\/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%2Fdemocrats-blast-trump-for-not-lowering-grocery-prices-immediately-washington-examiner%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=2395573&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>The article discusses the criticism \u200cfrom Democrats \u200btowards \u200cPresident\u200c Trump for failing\u200b too fulfill his\u200b campaign\u2064 promise to lower grocery prices &#8220;instantly&#8221; after \u200ctaking office. \u2062A letter \u2064co-written\u2063 by\u2062 Senator Elizabeth\u200d Warren and Representative Jim McGovern, signed by 20 Democrats, accuses Trump\u200d of prioritizing mass deportations and pardoning individuals involved\u200b in the January 6 incident over\u2064 addressing \u2062food price inflation. Trump had previously claimed he would \u2062drive down grocery prices\u2064 by <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\">enhancing domestic oil production<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>The White \u200cHouse defended\u2062 Trump&#8217;s actions, \u200dstating that his\u2064 administration started to combat inflation on his first day in office. However, Democrats highlighted that\u200d his executive order to tackle inflation did not\u200b specifically address grocery prices.The article notes rising egg prices, partly\u200b due to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/animal-rights-protester-glues-herself-to-nba-floor-during-play-in-game\/\" title=\"Animal Rights Protester Glues Herself To NBA Floor During Play-In Game\">bird flu outbreak<\/a>, as a pressing concern.Warren urged Trump to take concrete actions to fulfill his promises regarding food prices and called\u2062 on him to clarify his plans\u2062 to assist American families economically.  <\/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<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Democrats blast Trump for not lowering grocery prices &lsquo;immediately&rsquo;<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_1955292\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/democrats\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Democrats<\/a> are criticizing President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/donald-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Donald Trump<\/a> in his administration&rsquo;s infancy for not delivering on a promise to lower <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/finance-and-economy\/3122999\/harris-campaign-grocery-price-control-proposal-could-cause-shortages\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">grocery prices<\/a> &ldquo;immediately&rdquo; after he took office.<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) co-wrote a letter with Rep. Jim McGovern (D-MA), which was signed by 20 Democrats and sent to Trump on Sunday evening.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;During your campaign, you repeatedly promised you would lower food prices &lsquo;immediately&rsquo; if elected president,&rdquo; the letter says. &ldquo;But during your first week of office you have instead focused on mass deportations and pardoning January 6 attackers.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Trump <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2024\/12\/12\/economy\/grocery-prices-inflation-trump-interview\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">said<\/a> in an August press conference, which also displayed a table full of common groceries, that he would &ldquo;immediately bring prices down, starting on Day One.&rdquo; He said he would &ldquo;drill, baby, drill&rdquo; to accomplish the goal, possibly bringing down domestic oil prices with the added supply.<\/p>\n<p>The White House reinforced Trump&rsquo;s past statements on energy and blasted Warren for past inflation.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;President Trump immediately took action on day one to unleash American energy, which will drive down costs for families across the country,&rdquo; White House deputy press secretary Anna Kelly told the <em>Washington Examiner<\/em>. &ldquo;He has already ended the failed economic policies of the past four years that skyrocketed inflation, which were rubber-stamped by Elizabeth Warren.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The Democrats also cited the administration&rsquo;s recent backtracking on how fast grocery prices could come down as evidence it isn&rsquo;t fulfilling its campaign promises. It said the administration&rsquo;s only move to combat inflation is an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/fact-sheets\/2025\/01\/fact-sheet-president-donald-j-trump-delivers-emergency-price-relief-for-american-families-to-defeat-the-cost-of-living-crisis\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">executive order<\/a> Trump issued &ldquo;directing all Federal agencies to untangle the American economy from Biden constraints and improve affordability of necessary goods and services and increase the prosperity of the American workers.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;&#8203;&#8203;Your sole action on costs was an executive order that contained only the barest mention of food prices, and not a single specific policy to reduce them,&rdquo; it wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Vice President JD Vance said in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/3300963\/five-takeaways-vance-first-interview-vice-president-immigrants-economy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">an interview<\/a> Sunday that lowering grocery prices could prove complicated, adding that Trump &ldquo;can&rsquo;t undo all of the damage of Joe Biden&rsquo;s presidency in four days.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;There have been a number of executive orders that have caused, already, jobs to start coming back into our country, which is a core part of lowering prices,&rdquo; Vance said. &ldquo;More capital investment, more job creation in our economy, is one of the things that&rsquo;s going to drive down prices for all consumers, but also raise wages so that people can afford to buy the things that they need.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Vance called for patience in response to complaints that prices haven&rsquo;t come down, saying, &ldquo;Rome wasn&rsquo;t built in a day.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Donald Trump has already taken multiple executive actions that are going to lower energy prices, and I do believe that means consumers are going to see lower prices at the pump and at the grocery store, but it&rsquo;s going to take a little bit of time,&rdquo; Vance added.<\/p>\n<p>Warren and others who signed the letter, including Sens. Ron Wyden (D-OR) and Cory Booker (D-NJ) and a number of House lawmakers, declared they would work with Trump on the problem. They suggested Trump should go after &ldquo;the dominant food and grocery companies that have made record profits on the backs of working families who have had to pay higher prices.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;These companies often exploit crises like pandemics and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/condoleezza-rice-trumps-covid-travel-restrictions-with-china-incredibly-appropriate\/\" title=\"Condoleezza Rice: Trump&#039;s COVID Travel Restrictions With China &#039;Incredibly Appropriate&#039;\">avian flu outbreaks<\/a> as an opportunity to raise prices beyond what is needed to cover rising costs,&rdquo; they said. &ldquo;For example, last year, a Kroger executive admitted in federal court that the company raised the price of eggs and milk<br \/>&lsquo;significantly higher than the cost of inflation&rsquo; in the years following the COVID-19 pandemic.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<div class=\"infogram-embed\" data-id=\"73a05202-2c61-4d75-bc6f-b6fd09001c09\" data-type=\"interactive\" data-title=\"migrant busing major US cities\"><\/div>\n<p><script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script>!function(e,n,i,s){var d=\"InfogramEmbeds\";var o=e.getElementsByTagName(n)[0];if(window[d]&&window[d].initialized)window[d].process&&window[d].process();else if(!e.getElementById(i)){var r=e.createElement(n);r.async=1,r.id=i,r.src=s,o.parentNode.insertBefore(r,o)}}(document,\"script\",\"infogram-async\",\"https:\/\/e.infogram.com\/js\/dist\/embed-loader-min.js\");<\/script>    <\/p>\n<p>Democrats noted eggs as a main concern in the letter. Egg prices have been climbing in the last couple of months, with the largest <a href=\"https:\/\/abc7.com\/post\/expect-record-high-egg-prices-most-year-heres\/15836400\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">increases<\/a> in December, according to the USDA. A dozen large, grade-A eggs&nbsp;cost $3.65 in November before climbing to $4.15 a dozen in December.<\/p>\n<p>The price of eggs has been rising lately largely because of the H5 bird flu outbreak, which has killed millions of egg-laying hens.<\/p>\n<p>Warren believes Trump can do something to stop the rising prices of eggs.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;If Donald Trump is serious about working to lower grocery prices, he should buckle down, pick up these tools to lower egg prices, and deliver on his promises,&rdquo; she said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\"><strong><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In their conclusion, the Democrats behind the letter called on Trump to fulfill his campaign promise to lower grocery prices.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We urge you to make good on your campaign promise to lower food prices for American<br \/>families,&rdquo; they wrote. &ldquo;Therefore, we ask that you respond to this letter with additional clarity on your plans to lower food prices, including whether you will commit to the actions outlined above to help American families.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <script>!function(){var g=window;g.googletag=g.googletag||{},g.googletag.cmd=g.googletag.cmd||[],g.googletag.cmd.push(function(){g.googletag.pubads().setTargeting(\"has-featured-video\",\"true\")})}();<\/script><script>var _bp=_bp||[];_bp.push({\"div\":\"Brid_1955292\",\"obj\":{\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"1280\",\"height\":\"720\",\"stickyDirection\":\"below\",\"video\":\"1955292\"}});<\/script><script defer src=\"https:\/\/services.brid.tv\/player\/build\/brid.min.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democrats criticize Trump for failing to lower grocery prices quickly<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2395574,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Elizabeth-Warren-ggv2.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[3685,38214,5708,3634,32076],"class_list":["post-2395573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-democrats","tag-grocery-prices","tag-inflation","tag-trump","tag-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Elizabeth-Warren-ggv2.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2395573","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2395573"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2395573\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2395577,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2395573\/revisions\/2395577"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2395574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2395573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2395573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2395573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}