Democrats urge Trump to make good on campaign pledge to lower food prices
Elizabeth Warren and fellow lawmakers slam president for not keeping promise to reduce grocery bills ‘immediately’
Democrats have challenged Donald Trump to live up to his campaign pledge to lower food prices in a blistering letter that tries to reverse the whirlwind narrative of his first week back in the White House by reminding voters of the agenda he ran on.
After Trump dictated his agenda with an unprecedented flurry of executive orders on a multitude of themes – including immigration, DEI programs and gender-identity rights, the letter from the Massachusetts senator Elizabeth Warren and Jim McGovern, a House member for the same state, criticises him for ignoring the issue he attributed his election victory to: groceries.
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