“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.

  • Ensign_Crab@lemmy.worldEnglish
    11·
    1 day ago

    He past some of the biggest legislation since FDR.

    BBB came closest. It was killed in the senate as intended. The Inflation Reduction Act was the biggest legislation that Biden passed. It was so watered down and pro-corporate that Manchin cosponsored.

    He’s not in office anymore. He’s not running anymore. You don’t have to carry water for him anymore. You don’t have to lie on his behalf anymore.

    You don’t like how politics works. I get it. None of us do.

    Ha.

    But this incessant hostility to the Dems is not going to move the needle unless we move beyond FPTP.

    Democrats will never move beyond FPTP. “Just switch to RCV!” is a fucking pipe dream. Using it as a prerequisite for criticism of the party just means that you don’t want any criticism of the party ever.

    • TheFonz@lemmy.world
      11·
      1 day ago

      There was more than BBB. I don’t need to carry water for him but I do prefer to have a conversation grounded in reality that isn’t emotive and charged every time either. It’s impossible to discuss anything because every approach is devoid of nuance, details, or the boring entrapings of how policy actually gets done. It’s a lot more fun to screech about genocide Joe in’it?

      • Ensign_Crab@lemmy.worldEnglish
        21·
        1 day ago

        There was more than BBB.

        There wasn’t even BBB. It was killed by Democrats without even coming to the floor for a vote. Do tell, how did Old Man Biden out-progressive LBJ?

        I don’t need to carry water for him

        So stop.

        but I do prefer to have a conversation grounded in reality that isn’t emotive and charged every time either

        If you prefer a conversation grounded in reality, don’t say that Biden passed massive legislation that he didn’t pass. If you prefer conversation grounded in reality, don’t pretend that FPTP is going to come out of a party that considered the filibuster more important than democracy itself.

        • TheFonz@lemmy.worldEnglish
          11·
          1 day ago

          Hey man, keep screeching about how emotionally buthurt you are and keep calling people liars. In the meantime, the rest of us are going to roll up our sleeves and get to work building. The boomer dems aren’t going to be around forever and we gotta move forward. This whole brooding in bitterness and defeatism is bullcrap.

          • Ensign_Crab@lemmy.worldEnglish
            2·
            23 hours ago

            Hey man, keep screeching about how emotionally buthurt you are and keep calling people liars. In the meantime, the rest of us are going to roll up our sleeves and get to work building.

            I’ve seen what you build. There’s a reason you have to oversell it as being second only to the New Deal.