“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.

  • alaphic@lemmy.world
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    15 days ago

    As Jon Stewart put it on an episode of The Daily Show following the election, “The Republicans are playing chess and the Democrats are playing checkers”

    • superkret@feddit.org
      1·
      15 days ago

      I’d say the Democrats are trying to play Chess while the Republicans are playing Dodgeball.

      • mattw3496@fedia.io
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        15 days ago

        I’d say at this point that the Democrats are bringing a chessboard to a gunfight. They decided that knives were too uncouth.