Trump ordered the US government to lower prices for Americans. Can he Deliever?

[Bluethroughu]

Source: Cbs

President Trump, who while campaigning vowed to end the "inflation nightmare," on Monday signaled his focus on the high cost of living in the U.S. by signing an executive order that requires "all executive departments and agencies to deliver emergency price relief" to Americans.

Read more: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-inflation-executive-orders-cost-of-living/

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I didn't know we were a Communist country in control of the means of production.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

1. Proof is in the price of pudding. . . . .nt

[Henry203]

2. Passports will be cheaper

I acn not think of another thing we purchase from the government.

[SunSeeker]

12. Why will passports be cheaper?

Freezing federal hiring like he just did will certainly increase wait times, but how does that decrease the fee for a passport?

[Bluethroughu]

16. I think it was a joke, because that is the only thing this turd can control pricing on.

[LT Barclay]

33. That and demand will be up as people try to leave. Subtle and brilliant comment

[Bengus81]

3. Such fluff BS but CBS bought it hook line and sinker..................

[joanbarnes]

4. Eggs were $1 cheaper today, still 3x what they used to be......

By my calculation the extra dollar was just corporate price gauging, easy to drop $1 if it helps tRump.

[sinkingfeeling]

7. Price of eggs was exactly the same today as last week at the same store .... $4.17 a dozen.

[SunSeeker]

11. Where do you buy your eggs?? nt

[joanbarnes]

21. Aldi

$3.97 down to $2.99, but I went to a different Aldi location, if that made a difference?

[SunSeeker]

32. Trader Joe's by me charges $3.49/dozen and has for weeks. nt

[colorado_ufo]

39. $7.99 doz at Kroger (City Market) in Grand Junction, CO

yesterday. NO eggs at Natural Grocers.

[sakabatou]

5. He's already fucked up by wanting tariffs

[pfitz59]

6. Food prices are going to skyrocket

ICE is already raiding farms in California and other states. Farm workers, legal and illegal and ditching work to avoid the sweeps. Food is going unharvested. MAGA goons have yet to step up and fill the shortfall.

[Bluethroughu]

17. Yep, I noticed prices higher over night in Chicagoland area.

[Igel]

24. Remember who was in charge of ICE for the

orchard raid around Bakersfield 10-11 days before the recent inauguration.

It also pays to check out who, exactly, was detained.

[Cirsium]

31. "It was profiling"

Unannounced immigration raid in Kern County raises concerns among farmworkers, businesses

“It was profiling, it was purely field workers,” said Sara Fuentes, store manager of the local gas station. Fuentes said that at 9 a.m., when the store typically gets a rush of workers on their way to pick oranges, two men in civilian clothes and unmarked Suburbans started detaining people outside the store. “They didn’t stop people with FedEx uniforms, they were stopping people who looked like they worked in the fields.” Fuentes says one customer pulled in just to pump gas and agents approached him and detained him.

Fuentes has lived in Bakersfield all her life and says she’s never seen anything like it. In one instance, she said a man and woman drove up to the store together, and the man went inside. Border Patrol detained the man as he walked out, Fuentes said, and then demanded the woman get out of the vehicle. When she refused, another agency parked his vehicle behind the woman, blocking her car. Fuentes said it wasn’t until the local Univision station showed up that Border Patrol agents backed up their car and allowed the woman to leave.

https://syvnews.com/news/local/state-and-regional/unannounced-immigration-raid-in-kern-county-raises-concerns-among-farmworkers-businesses/article_36e1ecdf-cce6-503f-a4ac-fef3475f58a2.html

Immigration raid in Bakersfield has ‘chilling effect’ on community, United Farm Workers says

The raids have had a “rippling effect” on the communities in and around Bakersfield, Arteaga Sanders said, with parents keeping their children home from school and even putting off trips to the grocery store out of fear of being caught in a raid. Rumors of similar immigration round-ups were reported around communities in the Bay Area at the same time as the Kern County raids, but officials said they were not correct.

“This has already had a tremendous impact on the community, where folks are afraid to participate in going to work, taking their children to the doctor, taking their children to school, buying groceries,” she added.

https://www.mercurynews.com/2025/01/17/immigration-raid-in-bakersfield-has-chilling-effect-on-community-united-farm-workers-says/

[chowder66]

8. Watch them drop them for a bit to give !#$% a win, then they will skyrocket to no end to make back their losses

on top of food shortages due to workers being deported.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

9. Is the government going to take over all the grocery stores?

[SunSeeker]

13. No. He claims deregulation and more oil drilling will lower prices. Which is total bullshit.

[SunSeeker]

10. What a joke. Cutting regulations doesn't lower prices.

Businesses pocket any savings; nothing is compelling them to pass those savings to the consumer. But what will be shouldered by the consumer is the toxic pollution, injuries and marketing scams that will be allowed to flourish.

[Bluethroughu]

18. Snake oil and tapworms, welcome to American Enterprize!

[Raven123]

14. By all means!

Force Amazon, Google, Verizon, AT&T, Ford, GM, Tesla, etc. etc. to lower their prices! I’m all for it.

[Bluethroughu]

15. We would have riots in the streets by idiots paying the bills,

Screaming Commies.

[Raven123]

19. I like it. Trump's Commies

[Bluethroughu]

20. You're right about that! Hahaha.

[Figarosmom]

22. Well with him thats all there is

The appearance that he did something (when it's something good for the people)

And I'll bet MAGAs will be in grocery stores swearing g that the prices ARE DOWN even though they remain the same.

ITS MAGICAL THINKING

[Exp]

23. Under regulating could bring a lesser quality of product to some markets. nt

[kimbutgar]

25. I have been seeing a shortage of foods

I was in a Trader Joe’s and they were out of butter and there were only brown eggs. I’ve noticed emptier shelves at stores and I live in SF.

[bucolic_frolic]

28. People know. They are bringing it home with both hands before prices go up from the panic

this lame brain will create. Recall when Nixon used a wage-price freeze ... 90 days I think it was, to cool things off. When time was up prices rose faster because suppliers and retailers had to pass along what they couldn't during the cooling off period.

[kimbutgar]

34. I have been buying more coffee and meat.

[colorado_ufo]

40. BTW, brown eggs are FINE!

Only the color of the hen is different due to different varieties.

[Dyedinthewoolliberal]

26. Is that before or after he imposes tariffs?

Because that would be difficult for business to accomplish. I'm sure he thought this out

[bucolic_frolic]

27. Does this mean sending MAGA thugs to pay a little visit to store managers?

Like a protection racket, but in reverse.

[underpants]

29. His pharma EO has jacked up prices for a lot of people already.

Let alone that it will increase expenditures through Medicaid and Medicare.

[Sparkly]

30. What an idiot.

Like, "Just get out your little price stickers and make the prices lower, because I said so!"

[Blue_Tires]

35. This story is improperly framed

Donnie never gave a flying fuck about "fighting inflation", that was just a carrot to dangle in front of the low-information rubes and yokels to secure their votes and steal another election.

[LudwigPastorius]

36. "..can he deliver?"

Quite the opposite. He's backed himself into a corner by declaring that 25% tariffs on Canadian and Mexican goods will be enacted.

The table is set for an economic shitstorm.

[DallasNE]

37. What does that even mean?

I can remember going through both wage and price freezes and once removed wages and prices jump, somewhat erasing the purpose. That is the nature of using blunt instruments rather than monetary tweaks. I don’t understand how an agency can “deliver emergency price relief”. It is more complicated than that.

[Karasu]

38. LOL. If it was really that fucking simple, every past president would've done it.

This government by executive order is so fucking ridiculous. It's the epitome of magical thinking.

"I order you! I'm the king!"

And yeah, if a Dem did this, every Republican and their grandmother would be shrieking bloody murder about communism and the "free" market.

[colorado_ufo]

41. The great and powerful OZ has spoken.

Right.

[Karasu]

42. "Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain!"

[Javaman]

43. immigrants are already being deported from the farms in California...

this, as all things trump, is a pipe dream.

[Jit423]

44. He means give more tax breaks to the wealthy. nt

[Jit423]

45. So the new meme should be? Make America Communist MACOM?

[NNadir]

46. I've heard that farm workers are not showing up for work lest they be deported. This should do wonders for grocery...

...prices.

Look for tomatoes at $10 each, avocados for $20 each.

[RobinA]

47. What Does This

even mean? The Park Service will lower prices to get into Yellowstone? I mean, how many times to I purchase something directly from the government?