Democrats urge Trump to make good on campaign pledge to lower food prices
Democrats urge Trump to make good on campaign pledge to lower food prices
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Elizabeth Warren and fellow lawmakers slam president for not keeping promise to reduce grocery bills ‘immediately’. Democrats have challenged Donald Trump to live up to his campaign pledge to lower food prices in a blistering letter that tries to reverse the whirlwind narrative of his first week back in the White House by reminding voters of the agenda he ran on.
After Trump dictated his agenda with an unprecedented flurry of executive orders on a multitude of themes – including immigration, DEI programs and gender-identity rights, the letter from the Massachusetts senator Elizabeth Warren and Jim McGovern, a House member for the same state, criticises him for ignoring the issue he attributed his election victory to: groceries.
“A majority of people who voted for you shared that inflation and the economy was the most important for them in the election,” states the letter, which is signed by 19 of the authors’ fellow congressional Democrats. “Instead of working to lower their grocery bills however, you have used the first week of your administration on attempting to end birthright citizenship, pardoning individuals who attacked the US Capitol on January 6, and renaming a mountain.”.
The letter says Trump’s priorities since his inauguration have departed from those he focused on during his campaign, in which he consistently lambasted the Biden administration over inflation, which polls showed was a salient concern with voters. “During your campaign, you repeatedly promised you would lower food prices ‘immediately’ if elected president,” it reads.
