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I'm as against trump as anyone else, but let's say your candidate of choice was just put in power a month ago, would you expect new economic policies to have lowered the price of something nationwide? What's the historical precedent for something like that? Biden releasing strategic reserve of oil comes to mind, and IIRC that didn't put a dent in prices.
I worry that folks making a big deal out of this at this point in time are effectively being the same as the "I did this" Biden sticker folks, and idk about you but I sure thought they were asshats. Six months down the line, sure, hold him accountable for what he ran for. But idk how much economic impact a president has in two months time.
Why are egg prices high? A Bird flu epidemic that has run since 2022.
Trump’s DOGE fired several key USDA officials working on containing the bird flu outbreak. So that’s directly going to increase egg prices. It’s also going to reduce the efficiency of the only process that’s going to reduce egg prices - getting the bird flu epidemic under control.
To fill the shortfall, eggs would usually be imported from Canada. Trump started a trade war with Canada. Again that’s going to directly increase prices.
The price of eggs can’t be reduced by economic policy, only by agricultural policies. But we also know from his choice of Health Secretary how much Trump values vaccines.
On the other hand, Trump’s economic policies will increase the price of eggs and prolong the effects.
So Trump wandered into a house fire that was already burning, shot himself in the foot, then opened fire on firemen and paramedics attempting to rescue him. And the American consumer is meanwhile trapped upstairs.
These are all great reasons why egg prices are high, and will continue to be high.
All I'm asking for is precedent for a president to impact nationwide prices in 2 months time. What do you think is a reasonable window after which to assess a presidents impact on pricing of a national commodity?
If Trump had not campaigned on bringing down egg/grocery prices, I would agree with you.
In this case though, he promised to lower prices and that makes him a valid target for criticism since he promised he could do something about it and now obviously can't.
I never said he wasn't a valid target though. I'm asking what you think what a reasonable time frame a sitting president is expected to be given to fulfill a campaign promise of lowering the nationwide price of a commodity, and if that's based on precedent.
He's already screwed the country in countless ways in a month. Why can't he sign one of those executive orders for egg prices? Subsidize egg prices with all the money he's supposedly saving? He's already ignoring laws and courts, I have difficulty believing he is helpless.
My understanding is that he's giving $400 million in direct subsidies to egg farmers, as part of a $1 billion package to USDA to lower the cost of eggs.
I think my edit is probably closer to the mark
Good to know.
I understand your point generally, and would agree with you under most circumstances. However, you're talking about the guy who came out swinging from Tariff Town before he was even inaugurated, which has already made for negative economic movement. Under his watch (if you would even be so generous to say he's "watching" at all), there's already been all kinds of administrative chaos for the USA by wanton firings and other cuts and more EOs than you've ever seen in your lifetime.
So, yes, absolutely the country can blame Trump, at the very least for putting all his attention to causing chaos and not on the things he campaigned on. (Not that I ever believed he had any intention to ever pay attention to them.)
Then he shouldn’t have made egg (and grocery) prices immediately going down a central theme of his campaign.