Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., led a group of 20 other Democrats who slammed President Donald Trump for not lowering grocery prices during his first week in office.
In a letter dated Sunday, Warren and the Democrats reminded Trump that he had promised to "immediately bring prices down on day one."
"Americans, in the first days of your new presidency, are facing egg shortages amidst an avian flu outbreak and still-high prices at the grocery store. During your campaign, you repeatedly promised you would lower food prices 'immediately' if elected president. But during your first week of office you have instead focused on mass deportations and pardoning January 6 attackers, including those who assaulted Capitol police officers," read the letter.
Labor Department data released Friday showed that prices for food at home increased 1.8% from December 2023 to December 2024. Eggs shot up 36.8% during that same timeframe under former President Joe Biden's administration, a point that Vice President J.D. Vance made Sunday.
"Prices are going to come down, but it's going to take a little bit of time, right? The president has been president for all of five days," Vance said. "I think that in those five days, he's accomplished more than Joe Biden did in four years."
Trump late last month acknowledged that bringing down prices was not going to be easy.
"It's hard to bring things down once they're up," Trump told Time magazine. "You know, it's very hard."
Trump and Vance have taken aim at lowering energy prices as a means of lowering food costs.
"I think that energy is going to bring [prices] down," Trump told Time.
But according to the letter, signed by three Democrat senators and 18 Democrats from the House of Representatives, Trump focused on the wrong things in his first week.
"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 U.S. Capitol on January 6, and renaming a mountain," read the letter.
As Warren told NBC News, "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."
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