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Chicago, IL — This evening, and the next, the Democratic Party of Illinois is projecting messages onto the Trump Tower from 6:30 pm to 6:50pm. Tonight’s message is EGGS ARE STILL EXPENSIVE.
“Trump said he’d lower costs on Day One. Instead, eggs are still ridiculously expensive, he has yet to introduce any concrete plans to address inflation and working families are paying more for the basics. The cost of his lack of leadership is clear, and we are making sure everyone sees it.”
Since Day One, Donald Trump has made it clear that he is ill-equipped to lower costs for Illinoisans as he repeatedly puts his ego and the ultra-wealthy over working families.
Trump isn’t going to make corporate power players pay for his policies–working families will.
- The New Republic: Trump Desperately Tries to Blame Anyone but Himself for Inflation:
- But Donald Trump felt that there was only one person to blame. ““BIDEN INFLATION UP!” the president posted on Truth Social Wednesday morning.
- On the campaign trail, Trump repeatedly pledged to lower costs for American consumers on “day one.” But three weeks into his second administration, Trump has repeatedly avoided answering the hard questions on exactly how he’s going to provide relief for American’s wallets.
- The New Republic: Well, Well, Well: Trump Can’t Lower Egg Prices After All:
- Trump, who brags that he won the presidency by promising to lower the prices of groceries, is obviously acting swiftly and effectively to address the issue, right?
- Not quite. On Tuesday, the acting director of the Department of Health and Human Services paused the release of “regulations, guidance documents, and other public documents and communications” from all U.S. health and science agencies.
- Newsweek: Donald Trump’s Pledge to Lower Costs on ‘Day One’ is Unraveling:
- The price of eggs—a key inflationary touchstone for many Americans—soared 15.2 percent between December and January. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, this marked the “largest increase in the eggs index since June 2015 and…accounted for about two thirds of the total monthly food at home increase.”
- Bringing down the cost of goods in the U.S. was one of Trump’s central campaign promise, the president stating that his administration would start bringing prices down “on day one.” However, the latest report suggests that his administration will have to walk back some of its pledges on inflation.
- CNN: Trump pledged to bring down food prices on Day One. Instead, eggs are getting more expensive
- In August 2024, then-candidate former President Donald Trump delivered a press conference surrounded by packaged foods, meats, produce, condiments, milk and eggs.
- “When I win, I will immediately bring prices down, starting on Day One,” he said at the time.
- But Day One has turned into Day Seven, and those eggs are getting even more expensive.
- Despite a flurry of executive actions, Trump’s price-related promises have gone unfulfilled, Democratic lawmakers wrote in a letter addressed to the president.
- “You have instead focused on mass deportations and pardoning January 6 attackers, including those who assaulted Capitol police officers,” according to the letter signed by Sen. Elizabeth Warren and 20 congressional Democrats. “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.”
- The Hill: Opinion: Trump was supposed to fix food prices — so why are they getting worse?
- During last year’s presidential campaign, Donald Trump was quick to blame Joe Biden for rising prices. But with last week’s wholesale egg prices shattering records and retail prices up $2 over this time last year, Republicans still lack even the concepts of a plan for tackling inflation. It doesn’t help that their own party leader seems to be working against them: President Trump recently announced even more price-spiking tariffs against America’s largest trading partners.
- If the problem was just about some costly eggs, Republicans could probably blame the current avian flu outbreak ravaging America’s poultry stocks. Of course, those same Republicans also stripped safety regulations and cut inspection funding, ultimately making a nationwide avian flu outbreak unavoidable. If that wasn’t bad enough, the Trump administration has plans to reduce the federal government’s role in avian flu detection even further, effectively placing all inspection and prevention responsibility on cash-strapped states.
