{"id":1051472,"date":"2025-02-12T12:46:53","date_gmt":"2025-02-12T17:46:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/?p=1051472"},"modified":"2025-02-12T12:46:54","modified_gmt":"2025-02-12T17:46:54","slug":"icymi-with-high-prices-persisting-trump-tempers-tone-on-slaying-inflation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/icymi-with-high-prices-persisting-trump-tempers-tone-on-slaying-inflation\/","title":{"rendered":"ICYMI: With High Prices Persisting, Trump Tempers Tone on Slaying Inflation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"449\" width=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Black-Logo-White-Fill-For-Email.png?w=1024\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1050776\" srcset=\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Black-Logo-White-Fill-For-Email.png 1101w, https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Black-Logo-White-Fill-For-Email.png?resize=300,132 300w, https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Black-Logo-White-Fill-For-Email.png?resize=768,337 768w, https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Black-Logo-White-Fill-For-Email.png?resize=1024,449 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Key Point:<\/strong> \u201cPresident Trump promised voters that, if elected, he would enact policies that would bring prices down on \u2018Day 1\u2019 in office. But three weeks into his term, Mr. Trump and White House officials have become more measured in how they discuss their efforts to tame inflation. \u2026 Most things are still more expensive than they were a year ago and some are much higher.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/02\/12\/us\/politics\/trump-inflation-prices.html\"><strong>New York Times<\/strong><\/a><strong>: With High Prices Persisting, Trump Tempers Tone on Slaying Inflation<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By Alan Rappeport and Colby Smith&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>President Trump promised voters that, if elected, he would enact policies that would bring prices down on \u201cDay 1\u201d in office.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>But<\/strong> <strong>three weeks into his term, Mr. Trump and White House officials have become more measured in how they discuss their efforts to tame inflation.\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>But in an interview this week, Mr. Trump demurred when pressed about when families struggling with high prices would start to feel some relief.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>[W]hen asked at what point Americans would begin to experience relief from high consumer prices, <strong>[White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt] said, \u201cI don\u2019t have a timeline.\u201d<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Most things are still more expensive than they were a year ago and some are much higher<\/strong>. Consumers have been experiencing sticker shock when buying eggs, coffee or other grocery staples.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Popular restaurant chains such as Waffle House have added egg surcharges to their menus, while grocery stores across the country have begun limiting how many eggs customers can purchase.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The data showed that <strong>egg prices were up 15.2 percent in January, the<\/strong> <strong>largest monthly increase since 2015.<\/strong> Egg prices accounted for about two thirds of the total monthly food at home increase in January.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>A CBS News poll released this week showed that <strong>66 percent of Americans believe that Mr. Trump is not doing enough to lower prices.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Key Point: \u201cPresident Trump promised voters that, if elected, he would enact policies that would bring prices down on \u2018Day 1\u2019 in office. But three weeks into his term, Mr. Trump and White House officials have become more measured in how they discuss their efforts to tame inflation. \u2026 Most things are still more expensive [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":293,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1051472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-release"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>ICYMI: With High Prices Persisting, Trump Tempers Tone on Slaying Inflation - Democrats<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/icymi-with-high-prices-persisting-trump-tempers-tone-on-slaying-inflation\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Democrats\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-02-12T17:46:53+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-02-12T17:46:54+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Black-Logo-White-Fill-For-Email.png?w=1024\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Shelby Reese\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Shelby Reese\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/icymi-with-high-prices-persisting-trump-tempers-tone-on-slaying-inflation\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/icymi-with-high-prices-persisting-trump-tempers-tone-on-slaying-inflation\/\",\"name\":\"ICYMI: With High Prices Persisting, Trump Tempers Tone on Slaying Inflation - 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