“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.

  • OBJECTION!@lemmy.ml
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    25 days ago

    This is the same playbook they’ve been using since Trump first appeared and it doesn’t work. People don’t care that much about Trump’s scandals, they need to focus on economic messaging. Besides, he’s ineligible to run again so they need to have a strategy aimed at countering the right more broadly, not just one specific person.