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Majority of Americans blame Trump administration for high prices, poll finds
Welcome to live US politics. I’m Shrai Popat and I’ll be bringing you the latest news from Washington and beyond.
We start with today New survey from Politico This illustrates two particularly important statistics. Nearly half of Americans find it difficult to cover their monthly bills (from groceries to healthcare to utilities). During 55 percent of Americans blame the Trump administration for high prices at the grocery store.
This data comes after Donald Trump held the first rally-style event of a tour since returning to office to tout his self-proclaimed success in lowering the cost of living.
In a meandering 90-minute speech in Mount Pocono, Pennsylvania, the president called affordability a “hoax” (a stance he has repeated in recent weeks) and criticized Democrats and his predecessor, Joe Biden, for high prices. “We’re tearing them down,” he insisted Tuesday evening.
Trump also claimed that he had “crush” inflation and that “inflation has been stopped.” While inflation fell from 3% annually in January to 2.9% in August, it remained above the Fed’s 2% target.
Politico’s survey also included more telling numbers about specific situations in which Americans have had to give up vital services. 27 percent of survey respondents said they had skipped an exam in the last two years due to cost, and 23 percent said they had skipped a prescription dose for the same reason.
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Sam Levin
In his speech in Pennsylvania on Tuesday, Trump said: made a number of false and unsubstantiated claimsespecially about the state of the economy.
The President once again claimed that “prices have fallen too much.” In fact, prices increased during Trump’s second term. The consumer price index shows average prices in September were 1.7% higher than in January, as CNN notes summarized in a recent fact check. There was a 0.3% increase in consumer prices in September. This was largely due to the 4.1% increase in gasoline prices. Prices in September this year were 3% higher compared to September 2024.
Room requestedThere is no evidence that the cost of Thanksgiving turkeys has dropped by 33% compared to the Biden era. It’s difficult to assess changes in Thanksgiving costs: The American Farm Bureau Federation, a lobby group, found that the price per pound of frozen turkey 16% decrease However, this year fresh turkey wholesale prices growing significantly. In a report on Thanksgiving prices, Los Angeles TimesThe cost of a basket of 11 holiday meal staples is 4.1% more than last year, he said, citing a market research firm that surveys weekly prices at stores.
Read more about Sam’s affirmations and key takeaways here.
Colleague, David SmithHe points out that Trump’s speech on Tuesday is the latest example of the president repeating his racist rhetoric against Congresswoman Ilhan Omar and the countries he has previously denigrated.
“Ilhan Omar, whatever her name is. With her little hijab. I love her. She comes in, she does nothing but bitch. She’s always complaining,” Trump said. “We have to get him out of here! He married his brother… That’s why he’s here illegally.”
As David notes, Omar fled the civil war as a young child, came to the United States as a refugee, and became a U.S. citizen in 2000. claim She said she had long married her brother, whom she described as “completely fake and ridiculous.”
Trump then appeared to confirm a story from his first term – previously denied – that he referred to Haiti and African countries as “shithole countries.”
“We had a meeting and I said, ‘Why do we only take people from shithole countries, right?'” Trump said, recalling his meeting with senators. “‘We can’t get people from Norway, Sweden, just a few. Let us get some. From Denmark… send us some good people. Do you mind? But we always get people from Somalia, places that are disasters, right? Dirty, dirty, disgusting, full of crime. The only thing they’re good for is going after ships.”
You can read David’s summary of Trump’s speech below.
Majority of Americans blame Trump administration for high prices, poll finds
Welcome to live US politics. I’m Shrai Popat and I’ll be bringing you the latest news from Washington and beyond.
We start with today New survey from Politico This illustrates two particularly important statistics. Nearly half of Americans find it difficult to cover their monthly bills (from groceries to healthcare to utilities). During 55 percent of Americans blame the Trump administration for high prices at the grocery store.
This data comes after Donald Trump held the first rally-style event of a tour since returning to office to tout his self-proclaimed success in lowering the cost of living.
In a meandering 90-minute speech in Mount Pocono, Pennsylvania, the president called affordability a “hoax” (a stance he has repeated in recent weeks) and criticized Democrats and his predecessor, Joe Biden, for high prices. “We’re tearing them down,” he insisted Tuesday evening.
Trump also claimed that he had “crush” inflation and that “inflation has been stopped.” While inflation fell from 3% annually in January to 2.9% in August, it remained above the Fed’s 2% target.
Politico’s survey also included more telling numbers about specific situations in which Americans have had to give up vital services. 27 percent of survey respondents said they had skipped an exam in the last two years due to cost, and 23 percent said they had skipped a prescription dose for the same reason.
