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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.

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[-] P1k1e@lemmy.world 28 points 2 years 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

[-] Wogi@lemmy.world 31 points 2 years ago

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.

[-] drunkpostdisaster@lemmy.world 12 points 2 years ago

I hope they lock your egg loving ass up!

[-] Wogi@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

Don't egg me on man

[-] UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml 9 points 2 years ago
[-] Wogi@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

I find puns to be eggregious

[-] TseseJuer@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago
[-] Wogi@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

I have an eggumenical attachment.

[-] P1k1e@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago

Never figured my rage induced post would spurr such eggceptional responses

[-] Wogi@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago

You'll just have to learn to eggcept that people love eggs

[-] BigBenis@lemmy.world 26 points 2 years ago

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.

[-] TheHotze@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago

They are particularly high right now due to non economic reasons (disease).

[-] sudo42@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago

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

[-] intensely_human@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago

Authoritarian reasons: thousands of businesses forcibly shut down a few years ago, leading to massive market consolidation, leading to less competition, leading to the greed being unchecked.

Greed didn’t recently appear on the scene. Attributing the inflation to greed is like attributing Ukraine war deaths to gunpowder.

[-] labbbb2@thelemmy.club 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

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

[-] 5too@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago
[-] samus12345@lemm.ee 7 points 2 years ago

Yes, we'll still have them. Red states will just throw out any votes they don't like.

[-] Boozilla@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 years ago

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.

[-] intensely_human@lemm.ee 3 points 2 years ago

Eggs used to be people’s go-to for cheap animal protein

[-] dx1@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

Reminds me of the Republicans with the "raw milk".

[-] _stranger_@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

I wish they'd drink all the raw milk they can get their hands on.

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