“During your first week of office you have instead focused on mass deportations and pardoning January 6 attackers,” Sen. Elizabeth Warren and 19 other lawmakers told the president in a letter.

Summary

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.

  • Queen HawlSera@lemm.eeEnglish
    10·
    2 days ago

    I blame Reagan, his "The scariest phrase in the english language is “I’m from the Government and I’m here to help” nonsense

    It was a scam to encourage rugged individualism on a cartoonishly high level.

    I keep hearing from people that they’re GLAD Gender Affirming Care is being banned, not because they’re transphobic (they are, but that’s not the main reason they’re glad about it), but because they think now that Medicare isn’t going to cover that, that more people will be able to get on it and get cancer treatments.

    That is not how that works.

    • MutilationWave@lemmy.world
      3·
      2 days ago

      They think literally everything is zero-sum. If someone else is getting help, that could have been help for them. I have no idea how to undo this programming.